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  2. Muramasa - Wikipedia

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    Muramasa (村正, born before 1501), commonly known as Sengo Muramasa (千子村正), was a famous swordsmith who founded the Muramasa school and lived during the Muromachi period (14th to 16th centuries) in Kuwana, Ise Province, Japan (current Kuwana, Mie).

  3. Japanese sword - Wikipedia

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    Other types of Japanese swords include: tsurugi or ken, which is a straight double-edged sword; [19] ōdachi, tachi, which are older styles of a very long curved single-edged sword; uchigatana, a slightly shorter curved single-edged long sword; wakizashi, a medium-sized sword; and tantō, which is an even smaller knife-sized sword.

  4. Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai - Wikipedia

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    The Nihon Bijutsu Tōken Hozon Kyōkai (日本美術刀剣保存協会, 'The Society for Preservation of Japanese Art Swords', NBTHK) is a public interest incorporated foundation established in February 1948 to preserve and promote Japanese swords that have artistic value. They run a Japanese Sword Museum in Tokyo and have a secretariat in the ...

  5. Shoami - Wikipedia

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    Apprentices to sword-guard makers must have grown in numbers, and probably feudal lords outside the capital invited these men to work for them. From the Muromachi period until the nineteenth-century edict prohibiting the carrying of swords, Shoami guards in a wide range of styles were being produced all over Japan. In fact, so numerous are the ...

  6. The Book Loft - Wikipedia

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    The Book Loft of German Village is an independent bookstore in the German Village neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio.Opened in 1977 and described by the Columbus Business First as "iconic" and a "tourist destination", [1] the store has also been called "a national treasure" by The New York Times. [2]

  7. Kashima Shinden Jikishinkage-ryū - Wikipedia

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    The best apprentice of Yasutoshi was Makita Shigekatsu, a young man from a samurai family from Hokkaidō. His name and Jikishin Kage-ryū became famous on the northern island in the times of the Japanese civil war in 1868. [citation needed] By sword fighting, he was an expert in kyūdō (弓道), Japanese archery.

  8. Japanese sword mountings - Wikipedia

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    A diagram of a katana and koshirae with components identified. Fuchi (縁): The fuchi is a hilt collar between the tsuka and the tsuba.; Habaki (鎺): The habaki is a wedge-shaped metal collar used to keep the sword from falling out of the saya and to support the fittings below; fitted at the ha-machi and mune-machi which precede the nakago.

  9. Shakudō - Wikipedia

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    Shakudō (赤銅) is a Japanese billon of gold and copper (typically 4–10% gold, 96–90% copper), one of the irogane class of colored metals, which can be treated to develop a black, or sometimes indigo, patina, resembling lacquer.

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