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List of Plates
| 1. | A collection of swords | 43 |
| 2. | Daito (long sword) | 43 |
| 3. | Three types of wakizashi | 44 |
| 4. | Tanto (short sword) | 44 |
| 5. | Three tanto | 44 |
| 6. | A straight sword in ken mounting | 45 |
| 7. | A long sword in jindachi-zukuri mounting | 45 |
| 8. | A long sword in jindachi-zukuri mounting | 45 |
| 9. | Painting of a mid-Edo period samurai | 46 |
| 10. | Daito and wakizashi in buke-zukuri mounting | 63 |
| 11. | Kozuka (utility knife), kogai (skewer), and wari-bashi (chopsticks) | 63 |
| 12. | Shira-saya (plain wood scabbard) | 63 |
| 13. | Kyu-gunto (proto-army sword) | 64 |
| 14. | Police or parade saber | 64 |
| 15. | Two shin-gunto (neo-army sword) | 65 |
| 16. | Shin-gunto (neo-army sword) | 65 |
| 17. | Three kaigunto (naval sword) | 66 |
| 18. | Shikomi-zue (sword cane) | 66 |
| 19. | A tang with four rivet holes | 75 |
| 20. | A tang with an inscription | 75 |
| 21. | Blade with shortened tang | 76 |
| 22. | A tang with the results of a cutting test inscribed | 76 |
| 23. | Two tanto with scabbard pockets | 77 |
| 24. | A pair of matched tsuba | 77 |
| 25. | Tsuba with inlaid design | 77 |
| 26. | A collection of tsuba | 78 |
| 27. | Tsuba with gold filling | 87 |
| 28. | Hilts for buke-zukuri mountings | 87 |
| 29. | Habaki (collar) | 87 |
| 30. | Seppa (spacer) | 87 |
| 31. | A collection of fuchi and kashira (pommels) | 88 |
| 32. | A collection of menuki (hilt ornaments) | 89 |
| 33. | A set of fuchi and kashira | 90 |
| 34. | Purification rites by master swordsmith | 103 |
| 35. | Praying before the deity shelf | 103 |
| 36. | Heating and flattening of iron | 104 |
| 37. | Piling of the iron pieces | 104 |
| 38. | Heating of the iron pieces | 104 |
| 39. | Pounding of the iron | 105 |
| 40. | The sakite (aids) and master | 105 |
| 41. | Steel pieces fitted together with borax | 106 |
| 42. | The shaping of the sword | 106 |
| 43. | The rough blade is shaped | 107 |
| 44. | Coating of clay determines tempered pattern | 107 |
| 45. | Plunging the blade into water | 108 |
| 46. | Correcting the curvature of the blade | 108 |
| 47. | Grinding the blade | 109 |
| 48. | The tang is inscribed | 109 |
| 49. | A standard certificate issued by the Honnami family | 110 |
