kissakai
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About kissakai
- Birthday 06/06/1950
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I've always kept a record of my tsuba in a doc format as below I also keep a spreadsheet so I can easily organise them in any order such as schools and dates With the record you can add as much or as little as you like This one of my earlier records from over ten years ago and nothing has really changed but now I remove the tsuba background to white
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I'd like to see close ups of the 'falling apart' areas
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Increasing Gold Membership numbers?
kissakai replied to Brian's topic in General Nihonto Related Discussion
I think any NMB member can buy, this way the (gold) seller will have a larger pool to sell there items -
Increasing Gold Membership numbers?
kissakai replied to Brian's topic in General Nihonto Related Discussion
I'll re-raise my earlier point Only gold members can post items for sale -
Thank you both
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A lot of works has gone into this document - many thanks. A valuable reference
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Congratulations - a lovely achievement
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Too new?
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I have tsuba that are signed both sides so I know what you mean
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I wondered about that A knowledgeable friend did say the name could be correct but as yet unkown
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Mauro, I did see that in Sesko's book So far a mystery
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Thanks Steve I do have the Wakayama book but it's not in there I hadn't though about the name
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I have quite a few tsuba makers where the maker is unknown A resent one being: Nobukuni Masatoshi 信國 正壽 I have quite a few reference books but found nothing Apart from an internet search is there another resource I can use? I know maker from say 1800+ can be problematic
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Increasing Gold Membership numbers?
kissakai replied to Brian's topic in General Nihonto Related Discussion
Not sure if this has been mentioned earlier but only gold members can offer items for sale but anyone can buy
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