These sword cleaning and maintenance kits are mostly used for cleaning carbon steel blades so they don’t rust and keeps your sword looking like new. If you have a sword that has a carbon steel blade then you need to clean it often and keep your sword away from dust.


Contents of blade cleaning and maintenance kit

1) Mekugi –Nuki: a small brass hammer and awl combination tool used to remove the mekugi (bamboo peg) holding the blade and the handle together. (This tool is a traditional part of the maintenance kit. However we strongly recommend against disassembly of the sword since the bamboo pegs will wear, resulting in a loose grip. If you must remove the handle make sure you have new bamboo pegs to replace).

2) Yellow polishing cloth

3) Uchiko: the most finely ground whetstone powder (30-35 gram) for cleaning the blade surface. It is wrapped in Japanese handmade paper called yoshino-gami, and then rewrapped by cotton or silk cloth. The whetstone powder comes through the wrapping materials when patted on the blade surface. Try not to breathe this in because it is such a fine powder.

4) bottle of choji oil, to prevent rusting of the blade.