After years of practicing persistently and developing technical prowess, advanced students in the Japanese sword arts need to cultivate a strategic mind if they

Demonstrates and explains the history, construction, sword etiquette, basic targeting and mat cutting using the Samurai sword.

For over a thousand years the sword has played a crucial role in Japanese society. Even today it remains a ubiquitous and venerated object, whether cherished as

Focusing his expertise on the techniques and history of the bokken—the wooden training sword used by both ancient samurai and today’s swordsmen—the author

From raw steel to tempered blade, this text presents a visual account of thencient craft of swordmaking as practiced in modern Japan.