Buying your first iaito is always a puzzle and as most of you I made the common mistakes.The most important is to select the right length. The First-Time Buyer’s Puzzle: A Warning on Blade Measurements Buying your first Iaito often feels like solving a complex puzzle....
After the precision of the workshops in Seki and the focus of the Dojo, my journey brought me to a place of profound silence: Arigatayama, near Gotemba. I spent a few days in this sacred space, located under the watchful presence of Mount Fuji. In the world of Budo,...
These past days were very busy in term of training, anyway I found the time to go to Seki City considered as "City of Blades." For over 800 years, this small city located in Gifu Prefecture has been the heart of Japanese swordsmanship. The history of Seki as a...
In the past days I had the opportunity to get enough time to follow Tokugawa Ieyasu legacy starting from Shizuoka to Nagoya.It was an important historical deep dive considering Tokugawa's impact is huge in Japanese history with the end of war period and the start of a...
In the world of Japanese martial arts, few schools embody the profound connection between Zen philosophy and the blade as deeply as Mugai-ryū Iaihyōdō. At the very heart of this ancient swordsmanship tradition lies a powerful poem, or kanshi, penned by its founder,...