The grading of swords has a centuries-old tradition in Japan, just like sword making itself. Most daimyo in Japanese history sought advice from experts when putting together their impressive sword collections.<\/p>\n
This role was usually taken on by people who were involved in polishing swords, as these people had worked on many swords and therefore knew the characteristics of the different smiths and schools. The Hon'ami family was particularly well known in this field.<\/p>\n
Regardless of the existing tradition, there was an important point in recent Japanese history when the appraisal of swords reached national significance.<\/p>\n
At the end of the Second World War, Japan was occupied by the USA and all weapons in the country were confiscated. Some historically relevant nihonto were also destroyed in the process. The best known is probably the story of the Honjo Masamune, which is said to have been the best Japanese sword of all time. This sword disappeared in the course of the confiscation of weapons and never reappeared.<\/p>\n
Over time, it became clear that experts were urgently needed to categorise the confiscated swords according to whether they were historically relevant or not.
\nThese were the beginnings of the first official and institutionalised sword testing companies.<\/p>\n
This also gave rise to today's most influential organisation, the NBTHK.<\/p>\n
Die NBTHK ist heute mit Abstand die einflussreichste Institution im Bereich des japanischen Schwertes. Sie f\u00f6rdert den gesamten Markt von der Zusammenarbeit mit aktuellen Schwertschmieden, \u00fcber die Einstufung von historischen Schwertern, bis zum Handel mit den Schwertern, da einige ranghohe Mitglieder selbst Schwerth\u00e4ndler sind.<\/p>\n
Neben dieser Punkten ist die NBTHK auch mit Abstand der gr\u00f6\u00dfte F\u00f6rderer durch die Unterst\u00fctzung von jungen Talenten, Veranstaltung von Schmiedewettbewerben und dem Betrieb eines eigenen Schwertmuseums.<\/p>\n
With regard to certificates, also known as origami or simply papers, the NBTHK is regarded as the leading provider for the assessment and certification of swords.
\nOver the decades, there were also periods in which the papers were not considered particularly reliable. Today, however, they are without question the most reliable source and can therefore often be found in connection with swords.<\/p>\n
Mehr Informationen dar\u00fcber finden Sie in unserem Beitrag f\u00fcr NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon Papiere<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dabei gibt es Abstufungen, je nach Einsch\u00e4tzung \u00fcber das vorliegende Schwert. Das aktuelle Bewertungssystem ist wie folgt aufgebaut. Die Eintrittsstufe wird Hozon (Beitrag \u00fcber NBTHK Hozon Zertifikate<\/a>) genannt, gefolgt von Tokubetsu (Beitrag f\u00fcr NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon Papiere<\/a>) und Juyo (Beitrag \u00fcber Juyo Token<\/a>), dar\u00fcber befindet sich die Einstufung Tokubetsu Juyo.<\/p>\n In addition to the NBTHK certificates, our swords also include JHTKK (JTK) certificates. The JHTTK was founded following disputes within the NBTHK.<\/p>\n The documents of the JHTTK have slightly different centres of gravity than those of the NBTHK. They are more comprehensive and also go into more detail about the blade being assessed.<\/p>\n The JHTKK issues blue and brown origami (certificates). The brown origami are only awarded according to strict criteria and are perhaps similar in intention to Tokubetsu Hozon or Juyo. But due to the different focus of the two institutions, it is not possible to equate the papers!<\/p>\n If the offered sword is accompanied by NBTHK or JHTKK papers, this is always mentioned in the description of the sword.<\/p>\n All certificates are not to be understood as the absolute truth without an assessment of alternatives. There are sometimes different opinions between two people who judge the same sword, even within the same institution. Discrepancies are therefore possible, especially when relying on different sources. If a sword was tested by a particularly well-known person, we usually also write who the tester of the sword was.<\/p>\n Sometimes we ourselves come to a different conclusion than the facts in the certificates. This is in no way meant to imply that we want to put ourselves on an equal footing with these exceptional institutions or even value our own knowledge more highly!<\/p>\n In such cases, there is usually historical literature in which the sword is categorised differently by a reliable source. For the sake of completeness, we then add that different opinions exist.<\/p>\n Es gibt neben den oben genannten Arten von Zertifikaten noch viele andere.\u00a0Ein gesch\u00e4tzter Kollege hat diese Papiere sehr gut erkl\u00e4rt und nachvollziehbar aufgelistet. Dieser Liste haben wir nicht hinzuzuf\u00fcgen und verlinken sie an dieser Stelle deshalb einfach: http:\/\/www.shibuiswords.com\/papers1.htm<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Die Bedeutung von Zertifikaten in der Nihonto-Welt Ursprung der Schwert-Einstufung historischer Schwerter aus Japan Die Einstufung von Schwertern hat in Japan, wie die Schwertherstellung selbst, eine Jahrhunderte alte Tradition. Die meisten Daimyo in der japanischen Geschichte lie\u00dfen sich f\u00fcr die Zusammenstellung ihrer imposanten Schwertsammlungen von entsprechenden Gutachtern beraten. Diese Rolle \u00fcbernahmen in der Regel Personen, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":3693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nihontoinformationen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/japan-budo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/japan-budo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/japan-budo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japan-budo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japan-budo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/japan-budo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6065,"href":"https:\/\/japan-budo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/6065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japan-budo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/japan-budo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japan-budo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japan-budo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}JHTKK (JTK) Origami for Japanese Katana<\/h3>\n
How reliable are Nihonto certificates?<\/h2>\n