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For sale: KATANA

Just slightly over five years ago I wrote an article about a katana that found its’ way into my possession. If you read the article you’ll see that at first I wasn’t sure what to do with it, but in the end I replaced parts of it and made it into a useable sword. Originally […]

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Last year my high school kendo club celebrated it’s 60th anniversary. 60 sounds a lot, but the school itself was actually founded in Meiji 19 (1886), over 130 years ago, when the girls department of the Osaka-fu Shihan Gakko (“Osaka Normal High School”), separated itself into a different institution.  Of course, long term kenshi 24/7 […]