Beretta Presents the SO6EELL Izumi Project: the 1st Premium Over-and-Under Shotgun Engraved by a Katana Sensei
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Beretta Presents the SO6EELL Izumi Project: the 1st Premium Over-and-Under Shotgun Engraved by a Katana Sensei For the very first time the antique noble art of forging Japanese Katana Swords meets up with the ancient Italian tradition of firearms manufacturing, giving life to a one-of-a-kind set to be unveiled by Beretta at the Safari Club International Show, this week at Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas NV on Thursday, February 5th.“I feel," he says, "that nowadays the superior quality of Japanese craftsmanship is at a turning point, and there are not so many successors, so is essential to magnify and pass on, to the future generations, the art of the Samurai Sword.” Master Izumi chose to embellish the best-quality Beretta SO6EELL sidelock shotgun with a dragon theme.Dragons are depicted chasing a gold sphere - the mystical sacred pearl of wisdom, or Yang energy in early Taoism.“I feel," he says, "that nowadays the superior quality of Japanese craftsmanship is at a turning point, and there are not so many successors, so is essential to magnify and pass on, to the future generations, the art of the Samurai Sword.”Master Izumi chose to embellish the best-quality Beretta SO6EELL sidelock shotgun with a dragon theme.Dragons are depicted chasing a gold sphere - the mystical sacred pearl of wisdom, or Yang energy in early Taoism.A museum-quality Tanto, the traditional dagger carried by Samurais since the Kamakura period (12th century), was chosen as the perfect complement to the shotgun.