At Fusahiro Shimojima’s workshop, in the industrial city of Saitama, fires rage in small pits and an earthen floor absorbs the din of hammering. The Japanese swordsmith pounds the nascent blade of his ...
Samurai swords are reputed to be among the best ever produced, a fact attested to by the practice of testing the swords on human cadavers, usually those of condemned criminals. My question is, just ...
The new Tom Cruise movie "The Last Samurai" has renewed interest in the warriors of feudal Japan as mythologized in such films as "The Seven Samurai." But students of Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto Ryu, ...
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