A superconductive transition edge sensor (TES) calorimeter is for the first time applied for the diagnostics of the reversed field pinch plasma produced in the toroidal pinch experiment RX (TPE-RX), and the instrumental system is fully described. The first result from the soft x-ray spectroscopy in 0.23keV with an energy resolution 50eV are also presented. The TES calorimeter is made of a thin bilayer film of titanium and gold with a transition temperature of 151mK and its best energy resolution at our laboratory is 6.4eV, while it was significantly degraded by about a factor of eight during the plasma operation. The TES microcalorimeter was installed in a portable adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator (ADR), which is originally designed for a rocket experiment. The detector box is carefully designed to shield the strong magnetic field produced by the ADR and TPE-RX. The ADR was directly connected to TPE-RX with a vacuum duct in the sideway configuration, and cooled down to 125mK stabilized with an accuracy of 10μK rms using an improved proportional, integral, and derivative (PID) control method. Thin aluminized Toray Lumirror or Parylene-N films were used for the IR to UV blocking filters of the incident x-ray window to allow soft x-rays coming into the detector with good efficiency. TPE-RX was operated with the plasma current of Ip=220kA, and the wave forms of the TES output for every plasma shot lasting 80ms were obtained with a digital oscilloscope. The wave forms were analyzed with the optimal filtering method, and x-ray signals were extracted. A total of 3472 counts of x-ray signals were detected for 210 plasma shots during the flat-top phase of t=3570ms. Combined with the data measured with a lithium drifted silicon detector in the 1.38keV range, spectral features are investigated using a spectral fitting package XSPEC. The obtained spectrum is well explained by thermal plasma emission, although an impurity iron-L line emissions at variously ionized states are dominant around 0.71.2keV. At least three different temperature components ranging T=350900eV are required to account for the spectral shape, while the average temperature is consistent with the ruby laser Thomson scattering measurement.

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