Color
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ARMYKanagu : Brown electroplating or brown/red-brown painting
Later version used light green or tea color painting
Kobuchi used amalgam technique to get gold colorTsuba : Sukashi type : Brown electroplating or brown/red-brown painting
Normal type : Light gold color electroplating, Edge and sakura used bright gold color
Also, there the silver was used and black plating was done. (very rare)O-seppa : Dark red paiting or brown plating
NAVY
Kanagu : Light gold color electroplating, Kobuchi and sakura used bright gold color
Tsuba : Dark blue colored shakudo plating
O-seppa : (Sunrise shape) Dark blue plating or gold color plating
Common Features
Ko-seppa : Kikuza : Dark blue shakudo plating, Tatekizami : Gold plating, Kokizami : Silver plating
Menuki : Gold color
Sarute : Cast : Gold color. High/Medium quality has brown background with gold color sakura.
Wire : Red brown painting.
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