Jūyō Index

[Jussi Ekholm]

Well as I mentioned bit earlier this year in a thread in here I have been working on a index of Jūyō items. It has been ongoing for a few years now but now I have the 1st version finished. It took some time as I originally planned to just have old swords (Kotō) in a document (as they are my own personal interest), but then I didn't want to do a partial job, so I took on all of the swords, and finally I forced myself to tackle all the fittings, attachments and kinzōgan, kiritsuke etc. As I typed probably few hundred thousand kanji characters in by hand the project took a while. Now this should have all of the Japanese characters that appear in the index pages, and I have written smith / school etc. into Western characters, followed by Japanese characters. However I am not yet comfortable enough trying to translate the style of fittings, kiritsuke-mei, kinzōgan-mei etc. as I would make too many errors so for those you have the Japanese text that I typed in. The format in this should be very simple to follow. It is the same as in my last index (Kokuhō, Bunkazai, Bijutsuhin).

 

691 pages, 66. Jūyō sessions and 14792 items (if I added them up correctly). Hopefully the PDF will be easily readable (it should be searchable too).

 

Now as this has been a solo project spanning over a long time period, there must be some errors in there that I have made (there are definately some in rare fittings makers as fittings are not really my thing and sometimes I found 0 results with Google on some of the mei). If you spot some errors, send me a message and I will fix them for next release. I plan to make a yearly updates after NBTHK releases the session results.

 

Might be bit boring stuff as it is just lots of pages with plain text. I hope some will find this enjoyable and can find some help in personal research etc.

Juyo Index.pdf

[b.hennick]

That is amazing Jussi. Thank you for sharing! I am so impressed with the effort. FABULOUS!

[Ian B3HR2UH]

Hello Jussi , I can only echo Barry's sentiments . This is a herculean effort which will be of huge benefit to all collectors  . Many many thanks .

Ian Brooks

[Tanto54]

Thanks Jussi - Herculean effort!!!  Thanks for sharing.

[Katsujinken]

Holy moly. 

[Brian]

Pretty mindblowing Jussi. The amount of effort is staggering.
I'll add it to the downloads section and make you the author, so anytime you have any update or correct you are able to replace the file yourself.
The Nihonto community thanks you.

[Alex A]

Brilliant, great to see someone thinking outside the box.

[paulb]

Fantastic piece of work Jussi I really admire your patience!! I have already been scanning it for swords I might have seen

[vajo]

Incredible work Jussi. Just brilliant.

[Gakusee]

Kudos for the efforts, perseverance and generosity, Jussi! 

[Brano]

Also this way Thank you very much for Jussi
It is an unusual generous gesture that is often not seen today
By the way, at today's translation prices, this database is worth $ 15-25k

[BIG]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH JUSSI..

 

A LABOR OF LOVE

 

[Rivkin]

Thank you very much!

[Suppaman]

Thanks.

[Ken-Hawaii]

Jussi, you're a real jewel! That's an incredible amount of work. Thank you/