Showing posts with label samurai sword. Show all posts
Showing posts with label samurai sword. Show all posts
Thursday, 24 December 2009

The Samurai

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In Our Time this morning, as ever hosted by Melvyn Bragg, explored the history and 'myth' of the samurai throughout Japanese histor...
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Friday, 8 May 2009

Saya construction

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The saya is the scabbard of a sword in Japanese. The saya has a beautiful finish to it and is very often so highly lacquered that one might ...
Sunday, 26 April 2009

An introduction to Japanese armour and swords

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I spent the day in town looking for martial arts books and came away with an armful! I'll post a review when I've finished them but ...
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Sunday, 5 April 2009

Martial Arts Festival - iai

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This demo was lead by Hanshi Mike Selvey and as well as some iaido kata the guys treated us to some iai-jutsu kata and koryu kata as well as...
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Thursday, 26 March 2009

Menuki

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The menuki is a sword hilt decoration found on Japanese samurai swords. It is fitted to the handle (Tsuka) over the (usually) ray skin and u...
Sunday, 15 February 2009

Kogatana

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The kogatana was an accessory knife associated with the wakizashi (which originally meant 'side arm). Samurai would wear this shorter sw...
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Wednesday, 12 December 2007

Why a sword ban could be beneficial to Martial Artists

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Ok, so I've just scanned through this article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7139724.stm which outlines that that the ban is on cheap ...