•    Zanshin Ironworks is a company of craftsmen whose goal is to provide the highest standard of samurai katana and related products to our customers for fair and reasonable compensation. We seek to earn and maintain the respect of our customers and our colleagues in the business community as well as to enhance self-respect by providing outstanding products and services to our customers.

•   Our Goal is to be the best company possible, not necessarily the biggest or the most profitable. Our sword making and production ethic is rooted in Martial Arts Ethics and the American Arts & Crafts Movement. Craftsmanship, simple beauty, functionality and honesty of materials are the bywords of our efforts. 

•   In all matters we will undertake to provide service to each of our customers as we would wish to be attended to ourselves.

•   As craftsmen, each of us commits to excel in our individual areas of expertise and to provide our customers with the full benefit of our knowledge, ability and effort.

•   We recognize that our continued success requires a firm investment in human and technical resources. We commit to the investment of time, energy and capital as an integral part of our craft so that the quality of our product can be continually improved.

•   We strive to enable our employees to grow to their highest potential while rewarding their personal efforts and contributions. We shall provide a quality working environment for our employees and accord them the recognition they deserve.

•   We recognize our obligations to our families, and to the community in which we live and work. We support charitable and civic activities and encourage our employees to participate in them.

•   We intend to conduct this firm in a businesslike manner, employing all the benefits and economies of technology and efficient organization. We reject, however, the concept that the practice of business is to be shaped solely by a profit orientation, which diverts us from the achievement of our personal and professional goals.

•   We view our ultimate objective as the rendering of service, and the making of profit as only a component, albeit an important component, in the pursuit of that objective.