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 ...

Inside the foundry forging $15,000 artisanal samurai swords. It can take more than a year to make a single razor-sharp katana. In Japan, business is booming for the few remaining smiths who know ...