While katanas are most often associated with the Edo period (1603-1868), the history of the single-edged sword goes as far back as the Kamakura period (1185-1333), when the term was first used to ...

Making a Masterpiece. It has been said that the samurai's sword was his soul. Perhaps this deep attachment had something to do with the perfect melding of form and function found in the katana, as ...