Iai - The Art of Drawing the Sword

An excellent book on Iai covering many aspects of Iai-do as well as chapters examining and servicing the sword, uniform procedure, proper sword procedure, seppuku, sword testing, kenjutsu kata, and Chusingura (The Story of the Loyal Forty-Seven Ronin). Ilustrated profusely with drawings including cuts made on a human body that were used for testing a sword. Softcover, 257 pages.