Sword Makers In Philippines
Image via Wikipedia The Katana is a curved, single-edged Japanese sword traditionally used by the samurai. Pronounced [kah-tah-nah] in the kun’yomi (Japanese reading) of the kanji, the word has been adopted as a loan word by the English language; as Japanese does not have separate plural and singular forms, both “katanas” and “katana” are considered [...]
Let’s travel to regions with a less known swordmaking culture – The Philippines! The Spanish claimed and colonized the Philippine archipelago around 1565. The Spanish conquistador Miguel López de Legaspi was the first to set a Spanish foot on these lands. Later, about 1543, Ruy López de Villalobos named two islands of archipelago (Samar and [...]
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