S.Haugtredet

If you think Rashomon is a beautiful film, you should see Harakiri. Now THAT is a amazing movie both aesteticly, language wise and story wise! Have a splended christmas and a happy new year gentlemen :-)

Thank you very much Nobody and the rest of you aswell! I`ll pass it on to my friend. Have a nice day gentlemen :-)

Actually i don`t know the background for the phrase, i`m just trying to get it translated for a frind of mine wich hasn`t told me much about it...just that he would like the meaning/transelation of it. I don`t think it`s sword related tho. Would be great if you could roughly translate it Nobody. Have a nice day :-)

Could someone please help me out with this kanji...? Have a nice day gentlemen :-)

I agree with Henry. I`d at least stop cutting hard targets with it, and pay attention to the ha after cutting soft targets. If it keeps up "micro chiping", i`d say spare the blade and stop cutting with it all together. It could turn into bad crack(s) and you may brake your blade eventually. Have a nice day gentlemen!

Here`s a tsuba with somewhat a similar design. Not as nice as your fuchi-kashira tho...but it is for sale :-) http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfis ... yousai.htm I also found this on a browse yesterday. This is truly a beautiful pice with the pattern you have got on your fuchi-kashira and some others added to it aswell. Don`t think this one is for sale tho. http://www.shakudoya.com/g3.html Have a nice day Gentlemen!

I would belive there is a significant difference between a high end hanwei/bugei/ Last legend/ H. clark/ Bob E. / A.Dicristefano/ R. Barrett/ J. Walter etc etc and a wallhanger from "K-mart" There are several blades out there fully capable to handle the task of tameshigiri Dan and several are used by seriouse practitioners. The higher end of Hanwei being one of them. I have a Bugei (Hanwei made) Shobu and Dragonfly katana as well as a Last legend Mikusa 4000 series, and they do the job quite well at tameshigiri. Have a nice day Gentlemen :-)

Hi Leroy, i liked your pictures. Nice feel to them. Balanced background and nice "sun like" light from the side. And nothing to disturb the item you photographed. Many people have several other Japanese/oriental items in their picture wich only serv as distractions. Some of your diagonals in the pictures are really nice. Good thing to lead the eyes into the picture. The balance in your picture are in general good to. Some pictures can feel a little heavy to either side or front. Just have "balance" in the back of your head when taking tha pictures If i was to come with some minor pointers it would be light up some of the shady parts a little. You can still have some shadow, but the shadow won`t "swallow" parts of the item or become to "heavy or hard" in your picture. Also some where a tad out of focus. That the focus lies in the front of the picture and get`s blurry in the back is nice. But a general out of focus picture when everything else is nice is a shame. Use manual focus, don`t trust auto focus. Sometimes the cam don`t know what you want focus on. Also use filter so soften those "lightspots" that shines in the metal parts of the sword. Like the "burn out" in on of the kashira pictures of the first sword. Flaging the light, taking a test shots and moving light or item until your satesfied with the set up is a good thing to do. My thoughts anyway. Keep up the good work and share more photos. Have a nice day Leroy :-)

Thank you for that information Rich :-) I asked the question thinking it also could have something to do with wear and stress to the eria around the blade. Can anyone confirm or deny the thought...? Have a nice day gentlemen!

I was wondering if the punched/peened edge in the corners of the center hole was for other then fitting the tsuba to the blade? Have a nice day Gentlemen :-)

Thanks for sharing Franco, nice link indeed :-)

Nice site and really nice pictures. Interesting to see these old pictures of moments...frozen in time. Also a treat to see the different lenghts on swords, tsuka, clothing and so forth. A thought struck me whilest looking at some of the pictures. Some of these people are wearing western clothing and holding f.ex an ambrella in their hand. It struck me as a little amusing. Then i thought about what i must look like in my asian clothing in the dojo...and what they would have thought about that. I think they`d have a good laugh..... Thanks for sharing Nobody :-)

When it comes to Japanese movies, i can recomend "Harakiri" by Masaki Kobayashi. An exelent black and white film with a interesting twist. http://www.dvdmoviecentral.com/ReviewsText/harakiri.htm Have a nice day gentlemen :-)

I would guess that the tsuka is to the right of more practical reasons when displayed like this. Collector is probably right handed, so to keep it steady when removed from the wall....well, you get the picture. Just my thought :-) Have a nice day gentlemen!

That is some collection. Always amazing to see collections like this. One "candy" after an other hanging on the wall and in stands all over the place. Liked the sword stands. They looked beautiful Brian :-)