For the student and Japanese sword collector in search of authoritative first hand knowledge, identification, individual description and idiosyncrasies of the representative smiths in each period, the Japanese English edition of the Token Bijutsu (The Journal of the Japanese Sword Museum Tokyo, Japan) The 59 volumes were originally published in English for use by the western collector to assist us in the understanding and development of the sword, it has since more or less become the sword bible.
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