It can take more than a year to make a single razor-sharp katana. In Japan, business is booming for the few remaining smiths ...

More specifically, LignoSat is made with honoki, a magnolia tree native to Japan whose wood was historically used to craft samurai sword sheaths. The origins of LignoSat (named after the Latin ...

Samurai swords can cost thousands of dollars, but Kagan said he doesn’t mind beating his up. He picked it up for a few hundred dollars online and has used it for chopping wood and metal at home.

However, Gintoki carried a wooden sword, adhering to his Samurai spirit. Gintoki’s Toyako Bokuto is not an ordinary sword in Gintama Gintoki's Toyako Bokuto, as seen in Gintama Episode 29 (Image ...

Mystery shrouds the discovery of a centuries-old samurai sword buried amid Second World ... its hilt badly damaged by heat exposure. Yet the wood of its grip remained intact, along with sections ...

Next, carpenters fit the weapon with a lacquered wooden scabbard ... nearly six months to create this single katana sword. Though fit for a samurai warrior, this sword will likely sell to art ...

It was just before 9:30 a.m. that police said the attacker hit a 29-year-old man with the wooden sheath of a samurai sword. The man, dressed in all black, boarded the train at the Fulton Street ...