Yamabushi Antiques

http://emishi-ezo.net/ -- Kenjiro Hakomori's exceptional website dealing with the Emishi, their relations with the Yamato Japanese, Ainu and role in the establishment of the Japanese state.

http://home.earthlink.net/~jggilbert/tsuba.htm -- Jim Gilbert's site offers excellent information and insights on tsuba. Great Q/A section.

http://home.earthlink.net/%7Esteinrl/nihonto.htm -- Richard Steins extensive site for all things relating to nihonto

http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Palace/1135/sights.html -- Gavin Hougham's site of Japanese Museum links

http://nihontoken.org/e_index.html -- NTHK - Japan Sword Preservation Society

http://www.nbthk.net/ -- NBTHK - Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art-Sword (English site)

http://www.komonjo.com/ -- Mike Yamaguchi offers extensive inventories of nihonto and kodogu books in both Japanese and English

http://www.satcho.com/ -- Satcho also offers a good selection of book titles relating to nihonto, armor and kodogu

http://www.paragonbook.com/ -- Paragon Books offers many book titles primarily in English

http://www.bridgeofdreams.com/ -- Craig Harris offers rare books on Asia, with a focus on Japan

http://www.nihonto.ca/ -- Darcy Brockbank offers some world-class examples of nihonto with highly informative descriptions.

http://www.nihontocraft.com/japanese_sword_home.html -- Danny Massey's succinct site has informative articles and a thorough analysis of NBTHK origami -- Check out the gallery for some fine tsuba.

http://www.geocities.com/kitekageryu/misc.html -- S. Alexander Takeuchi's well researched and insightful articles on a wide variety of nihonto related issues from a historical perspective ..... things you always wanted to know, but were afraid to ask.

http://www.nihonto.us/ -- Andy Quirt offers some excellent tsuba and very fine swords

http://www.geocities.jp/kanetoyo2666/ -- Hiroshi Nakamura's site for nihonto offers interesting information on cutting tests, oshigata and origami. About half is currently in English, hopefully with more coming.

http://www.cgfinearts.com/index.cfm -- Colin Griffiths offers a broad assortment of quality fittings, blades and armor pieces.

http://rkgphotos.com/ -- Richard K. George is a professional photographer who has extensive experience in museum quality tosogu photography. You will find some of his photos on this website, as well as the Kokusai Tosogu Kai - for whom he is an official photographer.

http://www.snellsoftware.com/briansnoddyart/ -- Brian Snoddy is an accomplished artist who has merged his love painting with his love of Japanese armor. Among other things, Brian paints beautiful, photo-realistic images of well known armors, kabuto and menpo.

http://www.shibuiswords.com/ -- A very good site for articles, histories, glossary of terms and information on both nihonto and tosogu.

http://www.swordsandtsuba.com -- Fred Geyer's new website for tosogu, nihonto and the source for superb Akasaka tsuba.

http://www.honto-nihonto.com/index.php?article_id=1&clang=1 -- Udo Drechsel owns this non-commercial site as a nihonto enthusiast. German with English version.

http://www.tsubatsuka.nl/pages/welcome.aspx -- Martin Merks has recently created this site devoted to quality antique arms and armor including Japanese, European, Russian, African and Islamic works.

http://www.tsubaka.ru -- Andrey Esipovich's website is the only personal tosogu site out of Russia to my knowledge. Illustrating a nice selection of tsuba in Andrey's collection.

Not to exclude our friends who practice iaido etc., we list the following sites of interest

http://sojutsu.de/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/lang,en/ -- Jürgen Seebeck manages this very informative site focussed on the yari. For practitioners and those interested in the historic development of the yari, this is the site to visit. Great glossary and overview of the yari koshirae.

http://home.earthlink.net/%7Esteinrl/shinken.htm -- Article by Clive Sinclaire, president and former secretary of the Token Society of Great Britain, on shinken (live swords in iai practice) - via Richard Steins website (see above).

http://www.redsuntraditions.net/ -- Hats off to these guys for trying something different. Manufacturers of usable kataginu, hakama, kamishimo and obi.