When so many sword-swinging games seem to readily devolve into frantic button pounding where you slice and dice foes into itty bits, it's refreshing to stumble across one that takes a more ...

Inside the foundry forging $15,000 artisanal samurai swords It can take more than a year to make a single razor-sharp katana. In Japan, business is booming for the few remaining smiths who know ...

From appearances on the big screen to glass-enclosed shrines in art museums, almost everyone today is familiar with the gleaming, curved blade of a majestic samurai sword. In the fierce world of ...

The samurai long sword -- or "katana" -- has a cultural resonance throughout Japan, a symbol of its history. This 13th-century samurai sword was sold by Christies New York in 1992 for $418,000.

chronicles the history of the samurai sword, which dates back to before the 10 th century. outlines the several-stage manufacturing process of making the katana, Japan's legendary samurai sword.

He analyzes the one-handed sword fighting moves in "Avengers: Endgame," starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, and Jeremy Renner. He guides through the many types of samurai armor in "47 Ronin ...

For the samurai, the sword was deeply intertwined with the bushido code—the ethical system that governed their behavior. The sword was seen as an extension of the samurai’s soul, and to lose one’s ...

No, I don’t know sword-speak either, but the terms hint at the depth of samurai tradition. To samurai, all swords were and are different. By comparison, all lightsabers seem pretty much the same.