[swipe 👈🏻] During a hands-on lecture held at the Samurai Museum in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Paul Martin helps students to understand his passion for swords, which are both weapons and art objects. A leading expert and former curator of Japanese swords for the British Museum, Martin explains that the swordsmiths of centuries past used sublime skill to imbue their steel with subtle, beautiful patterns in ways that are still not understood today. (Jeff Broderick photos)
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