The articles listed below appear in the most recent issues of the JSSUS Newsletter

Volume 39 Number 6 December 2007 - our 50th anniversary

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Sword Clubs

Inside Cover

About Us

2

Ads and Ad payments

3

Editor's corner

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A New Publication by Grey Doffin

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Introduction of Japanese Metalwork by Dr. Kazutaro Torigoye

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Development of the Mon The Japanese Family Crest by Kei Kaneda Chappelear

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The system of iron-carbon-oxygen-fire (energ) as it relates to Japanese Swords by Dr. T. C. Ford

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Tsuba by R. B. Caldwell

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New Publications from the JSSUS 43
Buy - Sell - Trade Section 45
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Volume 39 Number 5 October 2007 - our 50th anniversary

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Sword Clubs

Inside Cover

About Us

2

Ads and Ad payments

3

Editor's corner

5

Treasurer's report by Ron Shibata

6

The Samurai Sword - how the components and features of the koshirae work together to make an effective weapon by Fred Kay as recorded by Barry Hennick

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For Herman Wallinga by members of the Rochester Sword Study Group

10

Japanese Swords of Hizen Provence a Book review

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Hizento by Fred Fimio

26

The Evolution of tactics and weapon systems: from the Mound period to the Satsuma Rebellion by B. H. Hazard 27
New Publications from the JSSUS 42
Buy - Sell - Trade Section 44

Volume 39 Number 4 August 2007 - our 50th anniversary

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Sword Clubs

Inside Cover

About Us

2

Ads and Ad payments

3

Editor's corner

4

President's message - by B. Quinn

5

Fascinating Tsuchioki Demonstration by Yoshindo Yoshihara by R. Hartmann

6

Spatial relationships in the study of mei by D. Brockbank

8

Kinsuji, Inazuma, Chikei: their causes and significance by E. Dobrzanski

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The Japanese Matchlock by T. Watanabe (Tomo)

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Old or New, Good or Bad, Important or Trivial? Rochester Sword Study Group by A. Frenzel 25
Condell's Conundrum by C. Condell 28
Tanto  Monogatari - The story of tanto swords by T. Watanabe (Teko) 33
Treasurer's report by R. Shibata 36
Buy - Sell - Trade Section 44