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A PUBLICATION FOR ALL THINGS RELATED TO IAIDO, IAIJUTSU AND KENJUTSU ISSUE THREE – NOVEMBER 2013 Editor: Stephen Nixey Diary dates Editor & Creative Director: Fraser Biscomb News, events and updates. This issue contributors: Raul Acevedo, Prof. Dr. Thomas Christaller, Steve Coniaris, Rob Dillon, Adrian Jones, Nigel Kettle, Paul Araki-Metcalfe, Justin McKay, David Passmore, Clive Sinclaire, Gary Williamson. Email: [email protected] Design and production: FARM – [email protected] Cover photo: Public domain Advertising: Contact us at our email address and request a rate card, or go to our website and download information directly from there. Deadlines Copy and imagery: Please submit copy and imagery at anytime by email. We CAN NOT accept copy by post. Imagery should ideally be sent as 300dpi jpegs or psd files and labelled appropriately. Image files larger than 10mbs should be sent as compressed files via www.yousendit.com or similar to: [email protected] Advertising: Please submit advertising as per the specifications outlined on the rate card by the end of the second week of every “even” month. The Cutting Edge is published bi-monthly on “odd” number months, therefore submission must be by the 30th day of even number months, i.e., February, April, June, August, October and December. Copyright The magazine follows international copyright and Fair Use law. Images taken by Cutting Edge photographers remains the magazine’s property and are stored electronically in our photolibrary. Re-usage of this imagery without permission is forbidden. Imagery taken from the public domain is not credited, as the or iginal owner can not always be verified. Imagery supplied by external sources must either be labelled with source details or have permission (accreditation) given for re-use. In these circumstances, Cutting Edge cannot be held responsible for copyright breaches, and if required, the source will be named if requested by the authorities. The copyright of all written text remains the property of the author. Reproduction in any way or by any means requires the authors permission. www.at-the-cutting-edge.com © Copyright Cutting Edge 2013 5 Profile Akira Kurosawa 8 Trading guns for swords. In depth 26 Kuroda-Han 30 Yagyu Shinkage Ryu 16 Shinsengumi Alive and kicking. A brief history. Famed Police of Kyoto. The mind behind 16 Hijikata Toshiz? 34 Zendo An introduction to Zen and it’s association with budo. The sword 50 Japanese polearms Yari and naginata Insight 46 Ki Esoteric or Scientific? Articles 36 Talent in the sword 14 Chonmage 42 The Philosopher Swordsman Is it a learning process? 26 Bori Sensei from Kuroda-han Shinkage-Ryu Not by Vidal Sassoon! Bringing a shinai to a battle of wits. 58 My own dojo How I did it by Raul Acevedo 8 CUTTING EDGE | 1