The Japanese Sword
ISBN-13: 9780870115622
Author(s): Kanzau Sato
Subjects: WCK
Publisher: Kodansha Europe Head Office
Publisher Imprint: Kodansha USA
Publication Date: 01-06-1983
Format: Hardback
Availability: In stock
£27.00
About the book
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'