There was a saying in old Japan: Bushi wa kuwanedo taka-yoji.  Roughly translated, it means, “When he’s hungry, the samurai uses a...

There are lots of mistakes to be made when learning the sword - beginning with picking one up without having had proper instruction....

“I’m an accountant,” the reader wrote. “I know finance. I know my sensei is making a bad decision with respect to an investment he’s...

Given the proliferation of social media in the martial arts community, one sees all sorts of posts nowadays related to Japanese budo and...