Founded by James Williams in 1993, Bugei Trading along with then newly completed Hanwei forge by Paul Chen brought the first functional production samurai swords to the US market. Shortly thereafter Barry Ross, President and founder of CAS Iberia, began working with Paul to expand the range of Hanwei’s smiths by tasking them to produce functional, affordable reproduction European swords and Japanese style swords of Paul’s own design. Ever since the Hanwei forge has produced the Bugei and CAS range of swords side-by-side, it seemed only natural to solidify our partnership. Our Bugei Brand of Products, are excluded from our Dealer network and only available through Bugei.com
Bugei, through the expert guidance of James Williams, has created a line of Japanese Katana built by CAS Hanwei to exacting specifications.