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Below are a selection of links to Nihonto stores, Information sites and services. Some of them are our regular contributors and I have also added some my personal favorites.
In regards to the sales sites, I have listed only sites that I have had personal experience with
or which are regular contributors and supporters of the Nihonto Message Board.
In fond memory of Jim Kurrasch. Sadly, Jim passed away on the 8th of September 2003
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As part of the Tosogu.com Blog, and attached to the Nihonto Kanji Pages this forum caters for tosogu only including tsuba, fuchi kashira, menuki, kozuka, kogai as well as koshirae and other fittings related items. No Ebay discussion. For seriosu students of tosogu. NIHONTOSTUDY (Yahoo) Jim Gilbert runs this forum that is dedicated mostly to Tosogu study. This is a Yahoo forum so Yahoo membership is required. Membership is required to both read and post messages. The TOKEN FORUM Justin Orr in Australia runs this excellent forum. Set ofr the serious discussion of Nihotno. This forum is free of idle Ebay chat, and is a no nonsese board for serious students of Nihonto. FOLLOWING THE IRON BRUSH Ford Hallam in South Africa runs this excellent forum for students and artist of art. This forum is dedicated to craftspersons who make a myriad of items form tosogu, netsuke, wood carving and more. If yo uhave ever wondered how some of these items may have been made ?, this is the place to find out. ETUDE du SABRE JAPONAIS A french forum for the discussion of all things Nihonto related. French language only but there aree some friendly English speaking members who are happy to help out. They have some excellent items on display. The NIHONTO MESSAGE BOARD Brian Robinson runs this forum aimed more towards beginners thought it has a good amount of serious students as well. Ebay discussion is allowed. It is a PPB based forum and can be a little slow to operate depending on your browser etc. Information sites
Tosogu.com is an information site aimed at squarely at tosogu. This is not as much a forum as it is a collection of thoughts. Membership is by invitation only. Contributors may contact the blog to offer articles. TSUBA - ART OF THE JAPANESE SWORD
Jim Gilbert runs the most comprehensive site on the
Tsuba - Art of the Japanese Sword
Dr Richard Stein's award winning site on everything Nihonto related.
Alternate site. NIHONTO NO BI This site was created by Mal and Sueko Cox. It contains much information on Mino swords and many oshigata, which are cross-referenced to Mal's book "Swords and Swordsmiths of Mino Province". There is also an extensive gallery of tsuba with support information, especially for Echizen Kinai, Yamashiro Tenpo and various ji-sukashi schools.
HIZENTO Roger Robertshaw's excellent and well informed site on Hizento and particularly, Hizen Tadayoshi. Lots of information and items for sale, and he is very obliging with help on all things Hizen.
MEIBOKU Alan Quinn's site has much information and excellent charts on Japanese characters, Sword characteristics and more.
PLEASE NOTE. Alans site has seem to gone off line. If anyone has any contact information, NIHONTOCRAFT.com
Danny Massey runs this excellent site, which contains some of the best
CHOSHUYA GINZA
Besides being one of the most prestigious sword stores in Japan, How to take blade out of saya, tang out of tsuka Names and explanation of each Sword part Classification of Sword Smiths
SHINSAKUTO.org Thomas Jason's excellent site on modern swords or shinsakuto JAPANESE SWORD MAKING PROCESS
Jinsoo Kim offers this excellent page on the sword making
NIHONTO KNOWLEDGE BASE
The Nihonto Knowledge Base is a community-driven effort to have a reliable online database
NIHONTO COMMUNITY CALENDAR This data base that keeps tabs on Japanese sword study meetings and events worldwide. Intended to serve as a home page, it also includes: a search engine, world clocks, currency converter, and daily world news from top syndicated providers such as CNN and BBC.
MODERNTOSHO.COM Moderntosho's goal is to help bring attention to the work of modern Japanese swordsmiths in the English speaking market and eventually offer a wide variety of swords ranging from the "up and comers" to the best smiths working in Japan today.
JP-SWORD.COM Dr. Jinsoo Kim's website has probably the best information in regards to WW2 swords on the internet. Jinsoo has over the years aquired much information on Gunto swords and sword smiths and it is all here amongst the pages on his website.
Commercial Sites and Appraisals YAMABUSHI ANTIQUES Andy, Boris and Henry run this excellent site that offers a lot of excellent information and has many excellent items for sale including Armor and fittings. Nice guys and highly recommended.
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Fred Weissberg's site offers much excellent information and many lovely items for sale
NIHONTO.US Andrew Quirt's site offers an axcellent selection of Juyo and non Juyo swords, tsuba, tosogu and other items. Andy offers a great service and is very helpful and has a great knowledge of Nihonto.
SEIKEIDO
One of my favorite two Japanese sites. Seikeido stock excellent Swords and tsuba, have no trouble
GINZA CHOSHUYA Co.Ltd.
Ginza Choshuya is one of the premier Japanese sites for swords and fittings. The quality of their
JAPANESE SWORD COLLECTOR
Louis Skebo offers a fine range of Japanese Swords, Fittings and Antiques for sale. Louis is a long
NIHONTO.CA
Darcy Brockbank offers Juyo quality swords as well as many other fine swords fittings for sale.
NIHONTOCRAFT.com
Danny Massey runs this excellent site. It has many fine swords and tsuba for sale, along with books
NIHONTO.US
Andy Quirt runs this fine web site with both Juyo and Tokubetsu Hozon and Hozon swords of very fine quality.
USAGIYA
Noriko and Sumei Kashima run this excellent site with items for sale as well as good information
YAKIBA
Ed Marshall runs this site that has many nice swords, fittings, books and other items for sale.
JAPANESESWORD.COM
Alf Tan runs this great site that has many nice swords on offer as well as swords that are very affordable
JP-SWORD.COM Dr. Jinsoo Kim's website JP-SWORD.com has swords, fittings and books on offer. Jinsoo has on occasion a great selection of Gunto swords from WW2. Jinsoo has been known in the Nihonto community for many years and is very friendly and esy to deal with.
JAPANESE AUCTION LINKS
These links are for Japanese auctions sites JSA ( Japanese Sword Auctions ) Yahoo and Bidders. It
Book Sales
Harry ( Afu ) Watson offers his fantastic English translations of the Nihonto Koza Series as
BRIDGE OF DREAMS
Craig Harris is based in the US and his company, Bridge of Dreams specializes in rare books about
ALAN BALE
Alan Bale is based in the UK and offer a wide range of hard to find books on Swords and Fittings
SATCHO
Michael Harris runs Satcho and they have a huge range of hard to find and out of print books on
TOKENSIBATA
Japanese based book seller that has a large selection of books at very reasonable price.
KOSHOYAMA
Japanese Nihonto Book store with a huge selection on all things Nihonto. The site is in English
Sword Polishers ( togi )
Mishina sensei is one of Japan's premier Japanese sword polishes. Mishina sensei offers a full
NIHONTO ANTIQUES Moses Beccera offers Japanese sword restoration, shirasaya and habaki services. Moses can also arrange for sayagaki and shinsa services.
BUSHIDO
Robert Benson offers Japanese sword restoration, shirasaya and habaki services,
LOUIS SKEBO
Louis offers restoration services of Japanese Swords and has the facilities to arrange
KEICHODO
Robert Hughes is an agent based in Japan that offers all required services getting your
Japanese Sword Preservation Societies and Sword Clubs.
NBTHK - Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai UNITED STATES NCJSC - Northern California Japanese Sword Club JSSUS - The Japanese Sword Society of the United States Europe The Token Society of Great Britain
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