Happy New Year!

I would like to take this opportunity to wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous 2015 and beyond. Let’s promise ourselves, and to the ones we love, that we’ll make the most of every day we are alive!

Since the NHK documentary on Japanese sword polishing aired last year which I was proud to be a part of — entitled “In Love with the Samurai Sword” — the number of positive emails and well wishes overwhelmed me. Thank you for all your incredible enthusiasm and for watching (and discovering!). If you have missed the documentary, please search for the title on YouTube, a copy was placed online (but not by Unique Japan).

Given the very personal nature of collecting Japanese swords, many swords that we acquire are sold to our long-term clients and to those who proactively contact us with specific requests as to what type of sword they wish to acquire.

Please contact me at service@uniquejapan.com to become informed on our latest acquisitions and your name will be added to our VIP emailing list. Thank you to all who have joined our list.

This front section of this catalogue contains information on three superb daisho sets and the Yasusada wakizashi that I took to Sasaki-sensei to have polished within the NHK documentary.

Swords are continuously being sourced, photographed and will be introduced on a regular basis. Please keep in contact — stand by for acquisition alerts!

I look forward to keeping in close touch in 2015.

Warm regards,