The March edition of Sword and Spirit has been posted. In “The Sacred Legacy of Hayashizaki Myojin,” Itten Dojo chief instructor Robert Wolfe kicks off a several issue series on the birth and development of iaido. This month, the focus is on the Iai Shrine in Yamagata Prefecture, where the art of iaido was born. For the April issue, we anticipate a guest contributor will share what is clearly the most extensively researched and documented history in English of Hayashizaki Jinsuke Shigenobu, the founder of iaido.

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