Sword History

The historical arc of Japanese swords from the Heian period through the Meiji Restoration and into the modern era.

Sword History

The Tokugawa Sword and How Peace Changed Japanese Blade Culture

When Tokugawa Ieyasu consolidated power after the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 and established the Edo shogunate in 1603, he ushered in roughly 260 years of enforced domestic