Tyler Grey

Tyler Grey Instagram – Here are some images of the stuff in the next raffle. Don’t miss your change these swords are ACTUAL Samurai swords with papers from Japan. If you don’t know the story of Japanese swords from WWII then you need to look it up as it is fascinating. In short: WWII officers and senior enlisted were required to carry swords. If you had a family heirloom AKA passed down blade you got the fitted in WWII koserai (grip, suba, sheath) then went to war. After the war the US started destroying all the swords until some Japanese scholars convinced a U.S. general that they weren’t just “weapons of war” they were culturally significant works of history and art. The general agreed to not destroy the swords on the condition they couldn’t stay in Japan. Therefore every GI was allowed to take a sword or simila. What most US soldiers did not know was that some of these swords had blades that were passed down some for over a 1000 years. That is why there are 1000’s of real Samurai swords in the United States and Britain the vast majority brought in somewhat accidentally after the Great War. This captured my imagination and I spent a lot of time and money according these amazing works of art. Of note I am not a historian and that is my brief explanation of the past which I have no doubt is somewhat different from what actually happened. I am a storyteller not a history teacher so please don’t take every detail as fact. What is a fact is that every Samurai piece is truly amazing and when you see the hand made craftsmanship up close it will amaze you I promise. | Posted on 02/Jul/2023 03:37:11