The Samurai Sword by John M. Yumoto

Author:John M. Yumoto
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4629-0706-9
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Fig. 31. Polisher, scabbard-maker, and lacquerer: eighteenth century.

Plate 34. The master performs a symbolic act of purification by pouring cold water over his body. (This and the following fourteen plates, showing the making of a sword, are used through the courtesy of Master Tsunetoshi Miyaguchi and the Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Sword, National Museum, Tokyo.)

Plate 35. He offers a fervent prayer before the deity shelf of his forge.

Plate 36. Iron of suitable quality is heated and flattened. Then it is quenched and broken into pieces of approximately equal size.

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