Lexicon within Heiho To Jutsu:

Concepts and Terms:

• Aiuchi - Mutual striking or cutting down 
• Battojutsu - Sword-drawing art / historical term
• Chuden - Middle
• Gedan - Lower
• Getta - Wooden Sandals
• Haori - Short-sleeve jacket worn over kimono
• Heiho - Tactical strategies
• Hidari - Left
• Himo - Belting of the hakama
• Hyoshi - Timing, of techniques against opponents
• Jodan - High
• Joiuchi - Orders from above, as in to execute a rival
• Joseki - Dojo's Upper Side Wall
• Jyuban - Sleeveless undergarment worn under a kimono
• Kamiza - Dojo's High or Shrine Place
• Kata dori - Shoulder grab
• Kata dori ryote - Grabbing both shoulders
• Kata dori, men tsuki - Shoulder grab, punch to the face
• Katate dori - One hand grabbing one hand/wrist
• Kawagane - Harder (higher carbon) steel used for blade's sides
• Kenjutsu - Swordsmanship art, especially in regards to fencing techniques
• Kimono - Traditional Japanese full length garment
• Kiri-ma - Cutting distance, opponent is within one step distance
• Kissaki San Zen - Final drawing stage as the sword is about to leave saya
• Kitae - Folding the steel bar during forging
• Kubi shime - Choke 
• Ma ai - Combative distance between opponents
• Mae - Front
• Men Tsuki - Face Strike, straight thrust with tsukagashia
• Migi - Right
• Morote dori - Two hands grabbing one hand/wrist
• Ryoute dori - Two hands grabbing two hands/wrists
• Saya dori - Grabbing the sword's scabbard
• Sen - Initiative, as in moving as a reaction to opponent's attack
• Shigane - Softer (lower carbon content) steel in blade's core
• Shimoseki - Dojo's Lower Side Wall
• Shirasaya - Wooden "display" saya and handle, used for storage 
• Shu Ha Ri - Obey - Break - Separate
• Tabi - Sock slippers
• Taijutsu - "Body Arts" - Unarmed self-defense methods  
• Tamahagane - Raw steel that can make the body of the blade
• Tantojutsu - Dagger arts
• Tatuske - Cord used to tie up kimono sleeves
• Tsuka dori - Grabbing the sword handle
• Ushiro - Rear
• Yaki-Ire - The hardening of the steel by heating and quencing blade
• Yokomen uchi - Sideways strike to the head

Sword Anatomy:

• Boshi - Tempered part of kissaki
• Fuchigane - Collar at fore end of hilt
• Fumabari - Tapering of the blade's width from the machi to the kissaki
• Ha - Cutting edge
• Habaki - Blade collar
• Ha-machi - Notch on edge before tang
• Hi - Groove of blade
• Kissaki - Point of the sword's blade
• Koigichi - Scabbard's opening
• Kojiri - Scabbard's end
• Koshirae - Mounting / Fittings on the sword
• Koshi-sori - Sword's curve near tang, bottom third of blade
• Kurikata - Scabbard's cord hole
• Mei - Signature of swordsmith on the tang
• Mekugi - Retaining Peg
• Mekugi Ana - Hole in tang for retaining peg
• Menuki - Ornaments on hilt / grippings
• Monouchi - First third of the blade from the kissaki
• Moto Haba - Blade's width at the machi
• Mune - Back (spine) of blade
• Mune-machi - Notch on back edge before tang
• Nagasa - Measure of blade's length from the kissaki to the mune machi
• Nakago - Tang of Blade
• Nakago-jiri - End of tang
• Sageo - Cord attached to scabbard
• Saki Haba - Blade's width at the yokote
• Saki-sori - Sword's curve in top third of the blade
• Same - Wrapping of the sword's hilt / rayskin
• Saya - Scabbard
• Seppa - Spaces on either side of the tsuba
• Shinogi - Ridge Line
• Shinogi-ji - Surface above groove
• Sori - Curvature of blade
• Tori-i-sori - Sword's curve's near the blade's center
• Tsuba - Sword's hand guard
• Tsuka - Sword's handle
• Tsukagashia - End of sword's handle
• Tsuka-Ito - Braid wrapping at end of hilt
• Yakiba - Temper line
• Yasuri Mei - File marks on the tang
• Yokote - Short transverse ridgeline of the kissaki