The Japanese Sword
Kanzau Sato author Joe Earle translator
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Kodansha America, Inc
Published:1st Jun '83
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One of the foremost experts on the Japanese sword describes their history and appreciations in this book, with photographs and illustrations. The Japanese sword combines unbreakability, rigidity, and lethal cutting power, and it is in the resolution of these conflicting practical requirements that it emerges as a triumph of the forger's art. The mystique of the sword lingers on in our age of mechanized combat, but the aesthetic qualities for which swords are most valued by collectors today-the liveliness of the metal skin,' the confidence in every aspect of the'
ISBN: 9780870115622
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 331g
180 pages