Please feel free to email me and submit any more terms you think people could find useful.Thankyou to everyone's contributions to the Sword terms page.

Battle Axe - Generally a one sided heavy axe,can also be double sided,designed to cleave through heavy armour and shields of enemies with ease.

Foil-A very quick stabbing weapon,It has no real slashing power.

Stiletto - A very long thin knive,Needle sharp point,blunt edge,designed for concealment and stabbing.

Rapier - A quick thrusting type sword,sharp only the first few inch's of the from the tip of the blade.

Broad Sword - Medieval sword,double edged and generally designed for both thrusting and slashing.

Cleave - Chopping Action

Tempered - Term given to steel when treated with heat and then quenshed with different liquids to increase hardness. (Different liquids give different results in the tempering)

Thrust -Stabbing motion

Hilt -Handle of sword

Pommel-End wieght of sword to counter blade balance

Bastard sword - Hand and Half sword , Able to be used with one or two hands easily.

Aikuchi - A dagger with no tsuba, typically worn by women.
Boken - Hardwood replica of sword.
Bokuto - Hardwood replica of sword.
Daisho - Great small, the set of two swords, daito and shoto.
Daito - Great sword, larger of the set of two, daito along with shoto.
Gunto - War sword, usually refers to those made just prior to and durning WWII.
Iaito - Practice sword for Iaido, usually not sharp.
Katana - Same as Daito. Mounted edge up.
Ken - Sword, usually refers to the straight double edged type.
Kodachi - Equivalent to shoto, lit. "small tachi" with the same fittings as a tachi.
Koto - "Old sword". Blades before about 1600.
Suburito - Wooden sword, usually heavy.
Shinai - Bamboo practice sword, used for kendo.
Shinken - A real or "live" blade.
Shinto - New swords, from about 1600 to 1870.
Shin-Shinto - Modern blades.
Shoto - The smaller of a pair of daisho, the other is the daito.
Tachi - Old style sword, (koto) mounted edge down.
Tanto - A knife sized short sword, typically less than 1 shaku in length.
To - Sword, curved type, single edge.
Uchi Gatana - Inside sword, forerunner to katana, worn in belt (obi).
Wakizashi - Equivalent to shoto, the shorter sword in a daisho pair, typically less than 2 shaku in length.
Nagamaki - Similar to naginata, a curved blade on a pole.
Naginata - Halberd - a long pole with a curved blade on the end.
Yari - Spear.
Shaku - 30.2cm or 11.9 inches.
Sun - 1/10th of a shaku.
Bu - 1/10th of a sun.
Nagasa - Measure of length of blade from kissaki to mune machi in a straight line.
Sori - Measure of curve of blade from nagasa to mune at deepest point.
Tachi, Daito, Katana - 2+ shaku
Shoto, Wakizashi - 1-2 shaku
Tanto - <1 shaku
Nakago - Tang of blade.
Nakago Jiri - End of tang.
Mei - Signiture on tang.
Yasuri Mei - File marks on tang.
Hitoe - Back of tang, meets mune at mune machi. Also called Nakago-mune.
Mekugi Ana - Hole through tang.
Mune Machi - Notch for habaki, at back of blade.
Ha Machi - Notch for habaki, at edge side of blade.
Tsuba Moto - 1/3 of blade nearest the tsuba.
Chu O - Middle 1/3 of blade.
Mono Uchi - 1/3 of blade nearest tip, cutting area.
Katahaba - Measurement at the thickest part of blade.
Mune - Back of blade: Misumune (3 surfaces), Marumune (rounded), Iorimune (standard 2 surface)
Shinogi Ji - Area of blade near back from shinogi to mune.
Hi - Grooves down shinogi ji.
Shinogi - Line of blade between shiogi ji and jigane, ridge at widest point of blade.
Hiraji - Area of blade between hamon and shinogi.
Jigane - Refers to the steel material. Jigane -skin steel. Shingane - core steel.
Hamon - Ha - edge, Mon - Pattern. The shape or style of the yakiba.
Hira - Face of the blade between the shinogi and ha, includes hiraji and hamon.
Yakiba - Yaki - fired, Ba (Ha) - edge. The hardened part of the blade near the edge.
Habuchi - Boundry of the yakiba.
Ha - Cutting edge.
Yokote - Line between edge plane and tip plane.
Mitsukado - Point where shinogi, yokote and ko shinogi meet.
Ko Shinogi - Shinogi line through tip area.
Kissaki - Tip area, from yokote to end. Kissaki sizes: Ko kissaki - small, Chu Kissaki - medium, O Kissaki - large.
Fukusa - Cutting edge in tip area.
Boshi - The hamon of the kissaki. Hardened area in tip / the curve leading to the point.
Tsuka - Handle.
Kashira - Fitting at the end of handle, end of handle.
Tsuka Maki - The style, pattern, or method of wrapping the handle.
Tsuka Ito - The material used to wrap the handle. Silk, leather, etc.
Same - Belly skin from a type of Ray. However, the word "same" means "shark", not ray fish.
Menuki - Decorative fixtures on handle.
Mekugi - Retaining peg.
Mekugi Ana - Hole for peg.
Fuchi Gane - Fitting between handle and guard.
Seppa - Spacers on either side of tsuba.
Tsuba - Sword guard.
Habaki - Fitting between tsuba and blade, wedge for koiguchi.
Kogai - Skewer.
Kogatana - Ko - small, Katana - blade. Small knife carried in a pocket on the saya.
Kodzuka - Ko - small, Tsuka - handle. Handle for the Kogatana.
Saya - Scabbard.
Shirasaya - Lit. "white scabbard", a plain storage-only scabbard.
Koiguchi - Scabbard mouth (literally carp's mouth)
Kurigata - Knob for tying sageo
Shitodome - Metal fittings inside the kurigata.
Sageo - Cord from saya (kurigata) to hakama himo.
Kojiri - Fitting at end of saya, end of saya.
Sakigawa - Leather tip of shinai.
Nakayui - The middle knot that holds the shinai staves together.
Tsukagawa - Leather handle.
Tsuba - Disc guard.
Tsubadome - the rubber that keeps the guard from sliding down.

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