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				Kirill Rivkin and Brian Isaac's "A Study of the Eastern Sword" is a good starting point that is fairly assessable for research on this subject. 
 
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 ABSOLUTELY excellent recommendation!!! a well written and thorough resource by two brilliant scholars on these topics.