Zatoichi DVD's
The blind swordsman was known as Zatoichi. A chubby, sometimes loveable, Japanese fellow who also happened to be a yakuza (gangster) who liked to gamble. His sword skills were simply amazing although a bit unconventional to say the least.
Japanese Samurai Swords
If you are merely purchasing a samurai sword for display purposes and positioning it as a focal point in a room then you certainly don't need to spend a lot of money, you can just go for a relatively cheap manufactured replica with the necessary sword stand. A samurai's sword was his most sacred and prized possession, therefore it comes as no surprise that the same discipline and respect in which the samurai wielded his sword, went into the actual making of the sword itself.
Back in the early times of sword manufacture, the production of super strong high-grade carbon steel wasn't even a vague dream.
Samurai Warriors
Samurai are generally written about and thought of as an honorable, humble class of people which upheld an extremely rigid and almost impossible-to-imagine or mythical-like set of rules, code of conduct and belief system and would give his life rather than break the Bushido Way of the Warrior.
Samurai Sword Collections
Although gaining modern fame and notoriety in modern epic cinema in such films as The Last Samurai and the Kill Bill series by Quentin Tarantino, samurai swords have long being an iconic symbol of Japan and its history. Thousands of swords are still circulated and collected from more recent times; the most popular 'collection' era's being WW1 and WW2. Made hundreds of years ago in feudal Japan, many examples of these swords are still in pristine condition.
Richard Whitherspoon
