Takanoha Edition
The feather that flies the arrow true. The discipline that makes force accurate, and the loyalty of the Forty-Seven Rōnin.
Who carried the hawk feathers?
Hawk feathers fletched the best arrows. The feather does no damage on its own; it is what makes the arrow go where it was aimed.
Crossed hawk feathers were the crest of the Asano of Akō. When their lord, Asano Naganori, was forced to take his own life in 1701, forty-seven of his retainers waited nearly two years, then avenged him and surrendered. The Forty-Seven Rōnin remain Japan’s best-known story of loyalty.
Takanoha is gold plated only — there is no nickel Takanoha.
2 firearms, each one of a kind.
Four tributes, one standard.
The heritage is what changes across the series. What every edition shares is the standard — and none of the hand finishing comes at the expense of the rifle.
Built to order in the SOT Custom Shop by our builders, to documented standards and processes, under the supervision of our Master Armorer.
Every firearm in the series is its own serial. No two are identical, and none is a run of a catalog item.
The maki gold and silver foil crests are laid by hand; the menpō masks are painted and blended by hand over Cerakote®.
Validated to the same protocol as every Second of Ten firearm. A piece of functional art is still a working rifle.
The three kamon editions — Maruni, Takanoha and Tokugawa — are built on Second of Ten’s direct-impingement house architecture on the Sharps Bros. Showdown billet lower. The Yasuke flagship is built on the Caracal CAR816 short-stroke gas-piston system. Every one is photographed on both sides; the serial is masked and nothing else is retouched.
