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

While the samurai class is largely long gone, having been outlawed in the late 19th century, it wouldn’t be hard to imagine them carrying a North Mountain Blade x Tyler Anderson Chop EDC knife.

Few samurai lived as fiercely or thought as deeply as Hosokawa Tadaoki. Behind every blade was a mind shaped by poetry, ...

Most determined for their curved blades, the Japanese samurai blades were among the most useful weapons in the past, especially the katana. The katana is a very prominent and iconic part of the ...

North Mountain Blade Ancient inspiration made modern. Traditionally, tanto knives were the smallest blades in a samurai’s arsenal. Even then, they were sizable compared to EDC knives — the blades are ...