Nakagawa Taizoh Sensei at his forge circa 1997 photo copyright Peter Boylan 1997 My dear friend and mentor, Nakagawa Taizoh passed ...

  Tamahagane, traditional steel, is filled with impurities and requires repeated heating and hammering just to get the impurities out. On...

Forging is a common metaphor when talking about training, whether it is in the martial arts, the military, or anywhere else that people lea...

While visiting Japan recently, I had the opportunity to visit an old friend who represents one of the rarest and most beautiful facets of ...