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Visual Glossary:
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Japanese
Blade Features
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Blade Types
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| Sugata (shape)
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| Nakago (tang)
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| Jitetsu (steel)
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| Yakiire ("hardening
pattern")
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| Chokoku (carvings)
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Japanese Sword Koshirae
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Related Topics
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Tsuka
(hilt or handle) |
Saya (Scabbard) |
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| Armour |
| Lacquer |
| Mito Koromono |
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References:
| "The Samurai Sword - A Handbook",
by John Yumoto, Tuttle Company, 1958,1991, ISBN 0-8048-0509-1
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| "The Craft of the Japanese
Sword", by Yoshindo Yoshihara, Kodansha international LTD., 1987,
ISBN 0-87011-798-x (us), ISBN 4-7700-1298-5 (Japan)
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| "The Connoisseurs Book of
Japanese Swords", by Kokan Nagayama
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| "The Arts of the Japanese
Sword", by B. W. Robinson, Tuttle Company, 1961
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| "A Primer of Japanese
Sword-Blades", by B. W. Robinson, 1955, 1974
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| "Japanese Sword Blades",
by Alfred Dobree, Arms and Armour Press,
1905, 1967, 1971, 1974, ISBN 0-87387-034-4
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| "Nihon To Koza", English
translation by AFU Research
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| "Military Swords of Japan",
by Richard Fuller & Ron Gregory
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