NCJSC Visual Glossary
VISUAL GLOSSARY OF JAPANESE BLADES, MOUNTINGS, AND MORE
Japanese Blade Features
Sugata (shape)
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Nakago (tang)
Jitetsu (steel)
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Yakiire ("hardening pattern")
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​Chokoku (carvings)
Related Topics
Armour
Abumi (Stirrups)
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REFERENCES
Website: Richard Stein's Japanese Sword Index
"The Samurai Sword - A Handbook"
by John Yumoto
Tuttle Company
1958,1991
ISBN 0-8048-0509-1
"The Craft of the Japanese Sword"
by Yoshindo Yoshihara
Kodansha International
1987
ISBN 0-87011-798-x (USA)
ISBN 4-7700-1298-5 (Japan)
"The Connoisseurs Book of Japanese Swords"
by Kokan Nagayama
Kodansha International
2017
ISBN-10: 1568365810
ISBN-13: 978-1568365817
"The Arts of the Japanese Sword"
by B. W. Robinson
Tuttle Company
1961
"A Primer of Japanese Sword-Blades"
by B. W. Robinson
1955, 1974
"Japanese Sword Blades"
by Alfred Dobree
Arms and Armour Press
1905, 1967, 1971, 1974
ISBN 0-87387-034-4
"Nihon To Koza" (English translation)
by Harry Watson
AFU Research
ISBN-10: 188861210X
ISBN-13: 9781888612103
"Military Swords of Japan"
by Richard Fuller & Ron Gregory
Arms and Armour Press
1987, 1993
ISBN-10: 1854091832
ISBN-13: 9781854091833