WEBSITES SELLING SWORDS AND RELATED ITEMS
This is one of the finest Japanese websites. This is the link to the English version. Seikodo offers top quality swords.
This is Danny Massey’s web site. Danny offers a lot of informaiton about swords and fittings as well as items for sale.
This is Tim Pepin’s site of swords and related items for sale. He also has an extensive glossary of sword terms.
SWORD CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS
The NCJSC was founded by John M. Yumoto (among others) in the early 1960’s, and incorporated as a nonprofit educational organization in June of 1976. An outstanding monthly newsletter is published for its members. The NCJSC hosts an annual Japanese sword show in August in the San Francisco area.
The Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (NBTHK) is the Society for the Preservation of Japanese Art Swords located in Tokyo, Japan. The American Branch of the NBTHK is one of only two Branches that have been organized by authority of the NBTHK outside Japan, the other being the European Branch.