Some 700 years ago, a famous Japanese blacksmith from Kyoto ... Yauji handcrafts the blades from start to finish—from the forge to its final polish. “Since I am the blacksmith and a polisher ...

Blacksmith Neil Kamimura wakes at his small Kona farm and heads into a self-made forge. Inside this sweltering ... footsteps of his great-grandfather, a Japanese immigrant and renowned blacksmith.