Japnese

admin on November 18th, 2009

On 2nd Jan ’07 I was lucky to have witnessed this. A must see. It took place in Seki, Japan. In the ceremony they use a Japanese steel called ‘tamahagane’, that is used to make samurai swords. This is heated up to 1200 degrees, and the sword makers take it in turns to beat it [...]

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admin on August 23rd, 2009

This is a brief documentation of japanese sword making and histroy of the Katana brought to you by the dicovery channel program descive weapons. I obviously take no credit for this program.

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