NCJSC Visual Glossary
VISUAL GLOSSARY OF JAPANESE BLADES, MOUNTINGS, AND MORE
Japanese Blade Features
Sugata (shape)
Nakago (tang)
Jitetsu (steel)
Yakiire ("hardening pattern")
Chokoku (carvings)
Related Topics
Armour
Abumi (Stirrups)
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