|
Cultural Heritage Online (Japanese) |
Nihontō can be found in Crafts/Metalwork section. |
|
|
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. |
|
|
Dr. T's Nihonto Random Thoughts |
"This page was created for the sole purpose of introducing some aspects of Japanese culture, history and tradition in association with one of the most respected traditional work of art in Japan, Nihon-to (i.e., traditionally hand forged and polished Japanese swords). Unless otherwise noted, the articles contained herein were written by the author of this web page (i.e., a.k.a. Dr. T) to present academic information on Japanese history, culture and traditional crafts related to Nihon-to." |
|
|
Honto Nihonto |
Available in German and English. |
|
|
Index of Japanese Sword Literature |
Compiled by Grey Doffin. |
|
|
Japanese Sword Index |
Dr Richard Stein's great site on everything Nihonto related. A real gateway to Nihonto resources. |
|
|
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.
|
|
|
Martin Hellmann's Toban-Art |
Martin Hellmann's tsuba related site with a beautiful gallery. |
|
|
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. |
|
|
Modern Tosho |
Modern Nihonto, Fittings, Photo Gallery and Biographical Information.
Modern Tosho was started by Ted Tenold and Keith Larman in 2005 with the goal of bringing the brilliant work of modern tosho in Japan to the American public. |
|
|
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. |
|
|
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. |
|
|
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. |
|
|
Ohmura's Military Swords of Imperial Japan (Gunto) |
|
|
|
Paul Martin's The Japanese Sword |
Paul Martin's site offers an oshigata gallery, links to his numerous articles and hosts Nihonto TV. |
|
|
Senshin Dojo, l'ecole d'escrime japonaise de St-Alban-de-Roche (French) |
Click 'Nippon To' to go to Japanese Sword section. |
|
|
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. |
|
