Kendo is a Japanese swordsmanship discipline that means “Way of the sword”. In place of traditional samurai swords like katanas, kendo martial artists use wooden swords known as bokken for performing practice routines called katas; or they use Japanese swords made of leather and bamboo called s...
Kendo is a Japanese swordsmanship discipline that means “Way of the sword”. In place of traditional samurai swords like katanas, kendo martial artists use wooden swords known as bokken for performing practice routines called katas; or they use Japanese swords made of leather and bamboo called s...
Of all the traditional Japanese art works, the katana, samurai swords, must be the most magnificent. In previous times, our predecessors applied portraits of nature’s harvest and Shinto and Buddhist deities on the katana, which was originally invented as a tool to slay people, as engravings a...