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- A Guide to European Medieval Pole Arms
- Modern recreation of a naginata
- Samurai armor diagram
- Samurai armor reproductions, with color photos
- A samurai museum in Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
- The Samurai: Warriors of Medieval Japan, 940-1600 Anthony J. Bryant; Osprey, 1989
- An Historical Guide To Arms & Armor Stephen Bull; Checkmark Books, 1991
- Life Among the Samurai Eleanor J. Hall; Lucent Books, 1999
- Indian and Oriental Arms and Armour Lord Egerton of Tatton; Dover, 2002
- A glossary of the construction, decoration, and use of arms and armor in all countries and in all times : together with some closely related subjects George Cameron Stone; Dover 1999
- Samurai: The Warrior Tradition Stephen Turnbull; Arms and Armour 1996
