- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Okay instead of people Pming me for the story of the katana, here it is.
Okay this happened to one my sensei"s very good friends.
He found a few pieces of a sword when he was....I think in Nam or some war. Well a he kept these, and a few years later he foundan authentic samurai blade,not the whole sword, at a pawn shop, so he bought it thinking he could maybe get enough pieces to build a sword. Well some time later after he had retrieved enough pieces to build a full sword, he was having a drink or lunch or something with a few of his friends in the martial arts. And he asked one of them if he knew a persons who could fashion a katana from pieces of one, and he got them out and showed him. His friend was amazed and told him all the pieces were from the same sword, and that the mark of the family and the smith was on each piece. So he told him about the legend of how each sword has a soul, and will eventually return to the family it belongs to.
So he had the sword re-smithed, and went with it to japan. And found the family, he then returned it to them and they were very gracious-This is an honest to god true story.