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Cultural Heritage Online (Japanese) |
Nihontō can be found in Crafts/Metalwork section. |
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Dean Hartley's page |
A page about Dean Hartley, a Past President of JSSUS, as well as some of his Nihonto related articles and videos. |
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Honto Nihonto |
Available in German and English. |
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Ian Chapman's Nihonto.uk |
This is an excellent UK based site dedicated to the preservation of fine, exceptional Japanese swords and fittings whilst safeguarding these treasures for future generations. As Ian puts it himself,
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My main objective in setting up this website is to enable other like-minded Japanese enthusiasts to enhance their own collections from a reliable, trustworthy source. I'm a strong believer in not messing about, or changing things from original, and only having restoration work done by a Japanese trained professional if absolutely necessary. |
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Index of Japanese Sword Literature |
Compiled by Grey Doffin. |
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Japanese Sword Index |
Dr Richard Stein's great site on everything Nihonto related. A real gateway to Nihonto resources. |
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Kenji Mishina's Website |
Website of famous Kenji Mishina, Japanese sword polisher, a student of Kokan Nagayama. It offers latest news, lectures and montly kantei. Don't miss Kokan Nagayama's diagrammatic oshigata.
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Meiboku |
This site is intended to provide information about Japanese swords (Nihontô).
To understand, date and identify Japanese swords it is important to study the shape and form of blades, the patterning (hada) of the surface metal, the pattern and age of file marks (yasurime) on the tang, the shape and features of the hamon and so on.
It is also very difficult to gain any understanding of Nihontô without being able to decipher Japanese characters (kanji) to read the signatures (mei) and other inscriptions on sword tangs (nakago). There is much information on the site to help you translate mei, together with information to enable you to describe various features of Japanese swords so that you can communicate easily about them. |
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Muramasa |
An educational website devoted to the Grandmaster swordsmith Sengo Muramasa. |
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Nihon Koto Shi (History of Koto) by Dr. Honma Junji |
NBTHK Japan publishes "Nihon Koto Shi" (History of Koto) written by Dr. Junji (Kunzan) Honma in English on their website. |
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Nihon Swords |
This website is managed by a group of collectors in Czech Republic. It offers a gallery, buy/sell features and provides information about local sword related events. |
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Nihontocraft.com |
Japanese sword sales and online reference materials focusing on the functionality of Nihonto.
This great site is run by Danny Massey. It provides a visual glossary of jigane and hataraki terms with detailed photos. Also, you may have a look at comprehensive articles in the 'Articles' section. |
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Ohmura's Military Swords of Imperial Japan (Gunto) |
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Paul Martin's The Japanese Sword |
Paul Martin's site offers an oshigata gallery, links to his numerous articles and hosts Nihonto TV. |
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Senshin Dojo, l'ecole d'escrime japonaise de St-Alban-de-Roche (French) |
Click 'Nippon To' to go to Japanese Sword section. |
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Usagiya Japanese Sword Shop |
Website/shop of Kashima sisters. You will find swords and fittings for sale, gallery of sold items, visual glossary and few articles. |
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