Hi Rob watch out that bargain seller...
http://ns2.petpeoplesplace.com/petstore/Antique-Samurai-Katana-Sword-ko-naminohira-Of-Kamakura-W-Nthk-69-cm-Cutting-Edge_181473497622.html
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Hi, nice pdf by Morgan Pitelka...
https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/1811/36276/EMJ_v.16_Pitelka_Morgan_Early_Modern_Warrior.pdf;jsessionid=A6236110588E448D53FAD6C60418CC02?sequence=1
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Hi here is nice poem about Katanamochi...
ume saku ya setchin no soto no katanamochi
Issa 1824
plum blossoms-
outside the outhouse
a sword bearer
Translation D. Lanoue
"A samurai of decent rank could afford such an attendant because human labor was so cheap"
https://darumamuseum.blogspot.de/2010/02/katana-1-sword.html
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Hi, article by Nelly Naumann and Roy Andrew Miller...
Old Japanese Sword Names And Stories Relating To Swords
http://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/download/pdf/150672?name=Old%20Japanese%20Sword%20Names%20and%20Stories%20Relating%20to%20Swords
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Hi all, some int. Thoughts about armor...NO it's about blood revenche history in Japan.
http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1963&context=theses
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Hi all, recently found on the netherlands to-ken site in the bibliothek two biographies about Taikei Naotane by Kataoka Ginsaku (probably in dutch language).
If someone help me out with these, most appr. and welcome.
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