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Originally Posted by Emanuel
Timo the tukou and habaki are not integral. In the case of nihonto the habaki isn't even structural, it serves as an interface with the scabbard to protect the surface of the blade, not to reinforce the blade.
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See Iaroslav Lebedynsky, De l'épée Scythe au sabre Mongol, Errance, Paris, 2008, pg 168 C(e), for a knife or sword with a possible integral collar, and pg 175 v, for a sword. I wouldn't call these bolsters, since they have a guard butted up against them, and are part of the blade, rather than the hilt. I can't tell from the drawings whether these are integral or not.
(There is at least one rivetted-on tunkou in that book; there is some diversity in how these are done.)
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Originally Posted by Emanuel
Any reference I could check for the medieval knives? I haven't seen anything with an integral bolster.
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Will look.