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4 more days to see the Barbie's-Mueller collection of samurai armour at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. $15 for non members.
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If you ask them know in advance they will probably let you see anything they own. I asked in advance and the Ashmolean Museum brought out all their Ishiguro School tsuba for me hold, examine, and photograph.
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That's what I thought but have 3 grades of gold, silver and bronze awards is pretty confusing and when Marcus reported receiving a silver award I incorrectly assumed that was second place. Do pics of the awarded pieces come out before the ceremony?
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Thanks, the official translation makes a lot more sense than the Google translate or the DeepL translate gibberish. Does this mean that Ford has made mukansa?
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Has anyone got an English translation of who won the 2024 competitions for tosogu?
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Dispatches from the Field 2024 #4 The Display of Japanese Armors at the Met. this article discusses how to reduce the degradation of armor due to moving between display and storage and how to build a better frame for displaying armor. free to subscribe to at the Met Museum, NYC. This is the sane website that discusses Japanese weapons and tosogu.
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Dispatches from the Field 2024 #4 The Display of Japanese Armors at the Met. this article discusses how to reduce the degradation of armor due to moving between display and storage and how to build a better frame for displaying armor. free to subscribe to at the Met Museum, NYC. This is the sane website that discusses Japanese weapons and tosogu.
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Good information but mediocre images. Ashmolean Museum online has better images for free and The Art Appreciation of Japanese Sword Fittings by Shigeo Fukushi has lots of good color figures (both iron and kinko) and some info on schools and individual artisans in Japanese and English).
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If you've never tried it you'll never know how. It's not magic- it's patience.
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You can buy the wood to make your own saya from Namakawa Heibei. It's cheap, split in two, dry, and arrives in the U.S. in about 1 week.
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Yup, silicon carbide is harder than steel but with a brush at least it won't wear down just the high points and the object is to remove the rust. I suppose you could use charcoal powder too but you'll be at it for a long long time. Just an option.
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The advantage of an animal hair brush is that it evenly rubs both the crevasses and the hills. Namakawa Heibei sells them. If you wish you can use 2000 grit silicon carbide to speed up the process. I use horse tail hair that I bought online. The originals were Japanese woman's hair.
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Just a technical note. Silver or gold leaf is not used. It's too thin. The correct term and substance is foil.
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Yup, can't be both.
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My understanding is that yamagane is just impure copper. Years ago I did XRF analyses on impure copper from several different locations in the upper peninsula of Michigan for another member. They were sent to me as smelted ingots and they were no different from copper in hardness, ductility, or strength. They varied in the amount of arsenic, zinc, and chloride mainly. I have used them in inlays and they patinate only slightly differently in Rokusho/Tampan solutions.
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So far, at least another kozuka and a set of matching menuki. Brilliant work, better than Ichigo or Ishiguro and without the team those masters had behind them. Certainly modern equipment helps but it's still incredibly meticulous.
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I have no idea of how to copy/paste a link to Utube videos from my iPhone, but I finally found this after searching Facebook-instagram- and finally X. Now I find it can be googled as part of a larger series many if you probably know about- "The beauty of Japanese swords: A new age of sword fittings". It's about the creation of a superb kozuka by engraver/watchmaker Kei Tsujimoto. It's for sale, but costs materials as well as 6 months labor!
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Duh, as if this post didn’t include the 2016 summary. Fortunately the museum answered my question. The images were accurate and one menuki faces the fuchi while the other faces the kashira.
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This is from the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum book "Late Edo and Meiji Period Sword Guards and Fittings". The fittings are by Ichijo but the circadian nymph menuki would face the kashira, not the fuchi. Do you think this is 1) aikuchi tanto specific, 2) reverse requested by owner, 3, reversed image by publisher, 4) exception to the rule, or 5) faux pas by Ichijo?
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If in Kyoto, the Kiyomitsu Sannezaka Museum has excellent exhibitions of late Edo and Meiji metalwork, lacquer, and Cloisonné. Easy to reach on Hagiashyma-dori by the #206 bus and a short uphill walk. Ichigo, Natsuo, Ishiguro sword furniture. Good restaurants nearby. Check with your hotel- there is usually an open-air market by the Toji Temple and Pagoda with antiques including swords (which would entail export papers), sword furniture, polishing stones, lacquer, etc.
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You might include a grey card in you pictures. They were very common with professional photographers in the film camera day.
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Read the label on paint strippers- some contain acid(s) that can remove patinas. Powerful ultrasonic cleaners can vibrate off electroplated gold. i wouldn't get lemon juice anywhere near patinated shakudo.
