Miniature Japanese Samurai Sword Letter Opener With Stand Review

Japan, that tiny island in the pacific is the place of many stories and legends. One only has to think of that country and it brings to mind cherry blossoms, boat parades, pagoda, geisha girls and the mighty Samurai warriors of old.

The struggle over land in the 12th century in Japan gave rise to the skilled and mighty Samurai. These great warriors ruled Japan for 800 years. Their weapon of choice was their swords which they wielded with great skill and daring. Now you can relive a part of Japan’s history and pay tribute to these fearless and honorable men right in your own office by owning a Miniature Japanese Samurai Sword Letter Opener with stand.

This uniquely beautiful letter opener stands 6.5 inches high and has a 3.75 inch blade which slices through an envelope like the true Samurai sword sliced through the armor of their enemies. The upright stand that holds this letter opener is designed to sit upright in true Shogun style bringing a little of Japanese history into your home or office.

Great Conversation Piece

This miniature Japanese Samurai Sword Letter Opener with Stand is eye catching and visitors to your office won’t help but notice this exquisitely designed opener with its silver and red handle and intricate carvings. It is a great conversation piece and can serve to relax a client before getting down to business.

For the sword collector who can’t take a real sword into his office this opener is the next best thing, putting this work of art and weaponry right onto his desk for all the world to see. Customers who have owned this opener rave not only about how handy it is but also how wonderful it looks on their desk and how much attention it gets.

Can Enhance Your décor

For those of you who have an oriental theme in your office this letter opener can bring your entire décor together making your office sparkle with touches of a long forgotten place and time. Even if you don’t have an oriental theme this opener can add a touch of history and whimsy to your office making it uniquely your own.

Great For Gift Giving

Priced at under ten dollars, this miniature Japanese Samurai Sword Letter Opener with stand will make the perfect gift for anyone on your shopping list who needs a letter opener and enjoys the unusual, historic or just attractive gift. It will make a wonderful gift for someone’s birthday, father’s day and Christmas. It also makes a wonderful graduation gift for those going off to college or retirement or promotion gift.

While not everyone would be thrilled to have a real genuine sword hanging around their house there probably isn’t anyone who wouldn’t enjoy this beautiful and unique letter opener. Designed to look like the real thing but far less dangerous this wonderful desk accessory is truly worth the price. It is sturdy and can open those envelops at the flick of wrist. Who could ask for anything more?

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Samurai Strategies $14.95 The most famous combat strategist in Japanese history was Musashi Miyamoto, a warrior who lived from 1584 to 1645. Miyamoto fought his first duel to the death when he was 13, killing a veteran warrior more than twice his age. By the time he was 29 he had killed more than 60 other warriors in duels and was a legend in his own time. Shortly before his death, Musashi recorded his philosophy, strategies and tactics in a short treatise entitled Go Rin Sho &#8212The Book of Five Rings. An esoteric read for anyone not versed in Japanese culture and language, Go Rin Sho has now been distilled to present the fundamentals of Miyamoto's tactics and explain them in the modern context of business, politics and war. Samurai Strategies is the result. Compiled by renowned Japanologist Boye Lafayette De Mente, it is more precise and practical as a handbook for winning than The Art of War by China's most famous military strategist, Sun Tzu. This hardcover edition features a new introduction by the author and additional commentary in each chapter by well-known Japanese author and samurai expert Michihiro Matsumoto.

The Samurai’s Garden $9.99 The daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father, Tsukiyama uses the Japanese invasion of China during the late 1930s as a somber backdrop for her unusual story about a 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen who is sent to his family’s summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener. Over the course of a remarkable year, Stephen learns Matsu’s secret and gains not only physical strength, but also profound spiritual insight. Matsu is a samurai of the soul, a man devoted to doing good and finding beauty in a cruel and arbitrary world, and Stephen is a noble student, learning to appreciate Matsu’s generous and nurturing way of life and to love Matsu’s soulmate, gentle Sachi, a woman afflicted with leprosy.

The 47th Samurai $9.99 In The 47th Samurai, Bob Lee Swagger, the gritty hero of Stephen Hunter’s bestselling novels Point of Impact and Time to Hunt, returns in Hunter’s most intense and exotic thriller to date. Bob Lee Swagger and Philip Yano are bound together by a single moment at Iwo Jima, 1945, when their fathers, two brave fighters on opposite sides, met in the bloody and chaotic battle for the island. Only Earl Swagger survived. More than sixty years later, Yano comes to America to honor the legacy of his heroic father by recovering the sword he used in the battle. His search has led him to Crazy Horse, Idaho, where Bob Lee, ex-marine and Vietnam veteran, has settled into a restless retirement and immediately pledges himself to Yano’s quest. Bob Lee finds the sword and delivers it to Yano in Tokyo. On inspection, they discover that it is not a standard WWII blade, but a legendary shin-shinto katana, an artifact of the nation. It is priceless but worth killing for. Suddenly Bob is at the center of a series of terrible crimes he barely understands but vows to avenge. And to do so, he throws himself into the world of the samurai, Tokyo’s dark, criminal yakuza underworld, and the unwritten rules of Japanese culture. Swagger’s allies, hard-as-nails, American-born Susan Okada and the brave, cocaine-dealing tabloid journalist Nick Yamamoto, help him move through this strange, glittering, and ominous world from the shady bosses of the seamy Kabukicho district to officials in the highest echelons of the Japanese government, but in the end, he is on his own and will succeed only if he can learn that to survive samurai, you must become samurai. As the plot races and the violence escalates, it becomes clear that a ruthless conspiracy is in place, and the only thing that can be taken for granted is that money, power, and sex can drive men of all nationalities to gruesome extremes. If Swagger hopes to stop them, he must be willing not only to die but also to kill.

Jesus And The Samurai $4.79 By 250 AD Christianity had spread throughout India and China. Known as the Shining Religion or the Luminous Teaching it drew adherents from Buddhism and Hinduism who were seeking a faith that taught the possibility of achieving a society founded on love and compassion for their fellow man. The new doctrine reached the island nation of Japan where it was so well received that Christianity threatened to supplant Buddhism as the dominant religion. By the close of the 16th century Japanese Christians numbered in the millions. Fifty years later Christianity was officially proscribed and Christians faced execution for openly practicing their faith. Jesus and the Samurai tells their fascinating story with facts drawn from ancient and modern sources.