1. Tsuka : Holding part.

2. Kashira : Fitting that placed at the end of tsuka to prepare for any shock comes from forward.

3. Tsukamaki : Tie tsuka up with strap to make easy to hold and also as a safeguard. Kumihimo is the most popular strap but wisteria vine and leather strap is also popular, and there are many way to tie up.

4. Samegawa : Shirk skin to cover tsuka as skid. And the projection around the center is called *Oyatsubu, the bigger the price higher. Also it is used to wrap the saya for decoration.

5. Menuki : Fitting placed at the center of tsuka to make easy to hold and not to slip.

6. Fuchi : Fitting placed at the touch of tsuka and tsuba. Fuchi goes with kashira as a work of art.

7. Tsuba : Protect the holding hand from blade, and also to adjust the weight balance of whole sword. But gradually it became a work of art itself.

8. Kozuka : Tsuka of knife which placed around sayaguchi. And this knife was an implement for practical use but gradually artistic quality had great importance.

9. Kougai : The implement as a comb and earpick. Gradually became a work of art itself.

10. Kurigata : The part where you thread sageo. Made from antler of deer.

11. Sageo : The cord threaded the kurigata. To fix the saya to obi(belt) that won't easily fallen off. There are many ways to weave and the selection of cord is followed each style and whole design.

12. Kaeritsuno : Projection made in middle of saya . The aim is to catch the obi(belt) when you pull out the blade so that saya won't come off at the same time

13. Saya : Cover of the blade to protect from wet and dust and other things from outside. Mostly made by lacquering wood and further wrapped with leather, bamboo and wisteria and so to make it more firm.

14. Sayajiri : End part of saya.

15. Kojiri : Fitting to protect sayajiri from kissaki hits.

1. kabuto : Helmet. Protection of one's head.

2. gyow-yow : Decorative fitting at the chest. "Kyu-bi-no-ita" and "Sendan-no-ita" are also seen instead to protect one's chest.

3. o-sode : Protects shoulders.

4. hikiawase-o : A cord to tie at the seam of "dou".

5. kote : Protection of arms to the back of one's hand.

6. kurijime-o : A belt to tighten one's waist.

7. kusazuri : Hang down around the dou from the waist. It used to be composed by four layer but it increased as time goes by for convenience

8. haidate : Knee protector.

9. sune'ate : To protect lower limbs. Three plates are stick together to cover the front and each side and lace-up at the back.

1. tehen : The apex of kabuto

2. hachi : Helmet. Main component of kabuto.

3. maedate : A kind of decoration to make commanding.

4. fukikaeshi : Fukikaeshi is the end part of shikoro which has been bended backward, it used to be a layer less than shikoro, but later it has simplified that only a layer attached to hachi has bended.

5. mabisashi : A visor. Protects one's face and prevent from sunlight.

6. shikoro : Protection of back of the head and cheak. Composed with four layer plates, op plate is called "hachi-tsuki-no-ita", second one "ni-no-ita", third one "san-no-ita" and the bottom one is "hishi-nui-no-ita".

7. menpou : A mask to protects full face.

8. o : Cord to fix kabuto to one's head.

9. kan'muri-ita

10. mizunomi-no-kan : Fitting to tie a cord to the back. This is for fixing sode not to shift when you bend foreward.

11. kougai-kanamono : A washer of "mizunomi-no-kan" attached to third or fourth layer of "sode". Its shape is similar to "kougai"(refer to Koshirae�G). This appeared from end of Kamakura period with various way of curving.

12. hiki-awase : The seam of "dou".