1) On the origins of Nihonto外文学习资料.pdf

On the Origins of NihonTo An attempt of interpretation of NihonTo evolution by Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini Firstly published on JSSUS Newsletter Volume 41 n. 5 October 2009 Updated and extended version Acknowledgements First acknowledgement must be given to Dr. W.W.Farris for his kind permission to use parts of his works and for the bibliography. Then to all the authors quoted in the sources‟ list and the ones , especially Masakuni, that with their works have enabled an armchair student to explain his own opinion. I must mention Boris Markhasin for kindly providing material on Jokoto complex construc- tion and Dr. Moriyama Koichi for suggestions about the meaning of some difficult passages and words. A special acknowledgement (and huge thanks) to Markus Sesko, which collaboration, in- formation, translations of a lot of material on early Japanese swords and swordsmithing have been invaluable to me. Last but not least John A. Stuart and Barry Hennick for proofreading my especially poor English and Ken Goldstein, (Ph.D) for professional feedbacks and proofreading. Disclaimer All mistakes, misconceptions, misunderstandings or plagiarisms are surely mine and I take full responsibility of them. Just remember that this work is not intended for commercial purposes and still remains simply an armchair student‟s effort. I think to have been fair in using sources giving full credit to Authors and listing all pictures‟ prove- nance on separate indexes but if anything in this work is not considered “fair use for study rea- sons not related to commercial purposes” and copyright infringement is a source of problems to anybody might be concerned, please contact me at tsubame1@tin.it in order to arrange the mat- ter. The same e-mail add