Long Type Sting Ray Skin 12 Inch Wide (20+inches long) Samegawa for Katana

Description

Species Name
Common Name
Location
CITES
Himantura Gerrardi
White Spotted Whipray
Many (Pakitstan to Myanmar)
No
The meat is often used in food while the skin is used for leather or samegawa.  Our skins are of higher quality than most obtained from China or India.  They have larger naval knots (oyatsubu), more consistent and thicker skin (lower quality skin can be seen through and have holes, inconsistent nodes, discolorations).  These skins have been used to supply well known tsukamakishi in Japan, as well as the USA.