By lyuesword | 05 June 2020 | 1 Comments
KATANA GLOSSARY (Part Ⅱ)
| GAKU-MEI | original signature inlaid in a cut-off (o-suriage) tang |  |
| GENDAITO | traditionally forged sword blades by modern smiths |  |
| GIMEI | fake signature | |
| GIN | silver | |
| GOMABASHI | parallel grooves |  |
| GUNOME | undulating hamon |  |
| GUNOME-MIDARE | irregularly undulating hamon | |
| GUNTO | army or military sword mountings |  |
| HA | cutting edge | |
| HABAKI | blade collar |  |
| HABUCHI | the line of the hamon |  |
| HADA | grain in steel, pattern of folding the steel | |
| HAGANE | steel | |
| HAGIRE | edge cracks in the hamon | |
| HAKIKAKE | broom swept portions in the boshi |  |
| HAKO BA | Box shaped hamon | |
| HAKO-MIDARE | uneven box shaped hamon |  |
| HAKO-MUNE | square shaped blade back | |
| HAMACHI | notch at the beginning of the cutting edge |  |
| HAMIDASHI | tanto or dagger with a small guard |  |
| HAMON | temper pattern along blade edge | |
| HANDACHI | tachi mountings used on a katana or wakizashi |  |
| HATARAKI | activities or workings within the hamon or temperline | |
| HAZUYA | finger stones used to show the hamon and hada |  |
| HI | grooves in the blade | |
| HIRA-MUNE | flat blade backridge |  |
| HIRA-TSUKURI / HIRA-ZUKURI | blade without a shinogi (flat blade) | |
| HIRO-SUGUHA | wide, straight temper line (hamon) |  |
| HITATSURA | full tempered hamon |  |
| HITSU / HITSU-ANA | holes in the tsuba for the kozuka or kogai |  |
| HONAMI | family of sword appraissers | |
| HORIMONO | carvings on sword blades |  |
| HOTSURE | stray lines from hamon to Ji |
| ICHI | one or first | |
| ICHIMAI | one-piece sword construction | |
| ICHIMAI BOSHI | point area (kissaki) that is fully tempered |  |
| IHORI-MUNE | peaked back ridge |  |
| IKUBI | boar's neck (a short, wide kissaki) |  |
| INAZUMA | lightning (a type of activity in the hamon) | |
| ITAME | wood grained hada | |
| ITO | silk or cotton hilt wrapping |  |
| ITOMAKI NO TACHI | tachi with top of saya wrapped with ito |  |
| ITO SUGU | thin, thread like hamon |
| JI | sword surface between the shinogi and the hamon |  |
| JI-GANE | surface steel | |
| JI-HADA | surface pattern of the hada |  |
| JINDACHI | tachi | |
| JI-NIE | islands of nie in the ji |  |
| JIZO BOSHI | boshi shaped like a priest's head |  |
| JUMONJI YAR | a spear with cross pieces |  |
| JUZU | hamon like rosary beads |  |
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