Old Photos - New Web pages

All -

Just spent the weekend scanning a bunch of old photos into the computer, these may be seen on my website http://www.toryu-mon.com under Galleries. Actually found more old photos while I was at it so in another week will be uploading those. Please take the time to visit the site and send me any feedback you may have on the articles I have posted as well.

Thank you,

-tch

Lots of great items to look over and appreciate, well organized, thanks for sharing ....

Tom,

Awesome resource! You have some really rare and interesting photos up there, nicely categorized. I'll make sure this is linked in the links section above. Thanks for sharing.

Brian

Thank you Gentlemen -

Some folks have pointed out that on some systems the photos take a minute to load - if you visit the site and click on GALLERIES give it a little time and all the albums will come up. It is "Under Construction" as I am still adding some photos and ephemera collected over the years and still in the process of titling some of the photos so do check in for updates.

Cheers all,

-t

Many thanks Tom !

Can you remember where you took the pictures of the armour exhibition in November 2009. Seems like a very interesting exhibition, I like the Saiga armour.

Paul.

EDIT: found it: Lethal Beauty

Tom, Thank you for for your efforts - the images are much appreciated. Amazingly, two of the armours crossed my path years ago. It was a delight to see what they looked like in their original condition with their crests and accessories.

Ian Bottomley

Paul -

You are correct, this was at the Clark Center in Hanford California. Something like a 4 hour drive from here with 6 other guys from the NCJSC. The swords were just so-so and did not photograph well. The armour made the trip well worth the effort. A very small museum but very nicely set up.

-t

For those who are interested,

Just finished loading a couple hundred more photos, please have a look if you are so inclided; http://www.toryu-mon.com

Keep in mind it's "under construction" as I am still titling many of the photos...

-t

Tom,

Great work. Looking over your photos was very enjoyable, thanks for sharing.

All -

Just finished updating the site with a new article in the Archive - take note that the subject is a tsuba which I was turned on to by reading the message board - this kind of relates to the Art or Artefact thread we had a while back, would love to know if you all see my little gem as one or the other - there are other articles there as well, please take the time to check em out - there is an RSS feed for these articles and I do plan on adding more so if you like what you are reading feel free to subscribe. If you have any feedback i would love to hear it.

http://www.toryu-mon.com

-t

Hi,

Thank you for sharing about a lot of photographs.

A photograph to which I especially paid attention is the following pic.

http://www.toryu-mon.com/Toryu-Mon/Gall ... ae.html#59

This Tachi sword is "Bittyu Aoe Masatsune" (national treasure/ pre WWII, Important Cultural Properties/now ).

This Tachi-sword became missing from shrine right after end of the WW2 and was discovered by Mr. J Umoto in the United States in 1972. And, it was restored to former owner(Kumano Hayatama shrine ).

Thank you.

Morita san -

Domo arigato gozaimasu! Thanks very much for looking and helping to identify the photo. I will be sure to change the title on this pic.

-t

Thank you Thom. :D

Sorry,i miss typed his name. Mr.John Yumoto is correct.