Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini

edit to delete an already posted link.

Recommended reading. Wonder if Civita and Franci from Stibbert Museum of Florence belongs to this board...

To all my friends that have wondered about my health and absence, I give you my best thanks for your friendship demonstration. I had very harsh times and my life is stll hard and health still bad . However love for Nihonto is unchanged and keep me fighting. All the best to the ones that still remember me. For now I avoid posting on FB so meet you here when I can. Have a good time on NMB. Carlo

To the very few that might be interested in, my essay "On the origins of NihonTo" has been published in Japanese by the Chubachi Museum thanks to the efforts of Wataru Hara San.

It is possible Jacques refer to the quality (and hence the purpose) of this orikaeshi.

Patrick, Jacques is better than Rossi at paper kantei, but doesn't mean Jacques is a good polisher... Rossi is the Chairman of INTK, a very close friend of Yoshindo Yoshihara and Leon Kapp. The link provided by Chris shows a JoJosaku sword polished by him. Judge by yourself. BTW, as far as Atari goes... in the close past he has clamed (and still do...) to have polished an unrecorded, genuine Masamune (*That* Masamune) even posting pictures on the board you've linked. Dixit...

Henk, guess It reminds you Marishiten, but I'd hesitate to state it for sure.

Boris own one. We're researching that early blade, surely earlier than Kamakura.

So you know how old it is, where it's treasured and why. A reversed-naoshi. That's the point. It is labeled as Nagamaki (guess you can read it in the description) because of the nakago, not because of the blade shape. It was a practical weapon without doubts. This would lead me to talk about how the differentiation of the therms begun *in my humble opinion* (following the genealogy and origins of two different weapons) and were later mixed up ending in either two therms for a single blade (Naginata, as seems from the pic you've posted)) or simply trashing the therm Nagamaki tout-court (in appraisal) but this is not the right thread. According to your pic the following would be a Nagamaki. I'd consider it a Naginata.

I'd subscribe Ted's words of caution about grey areas :

hi John. Andy ?

Ah, my fault, I skipped to look at the imageshack link. Indeed the other side of Nakagojiri looks as you say there. I wonder how much it can be due to angle (either case), as still nakagoana seems a bit low to me, but I'm now less convinced of my statement than before...

Nice one Doc. Nagasa ?

Makes sense, however still seems a little low and misplaced not excluding Suriage is the reason of such placement. Kiri nakagojiri is a feature of the school you suppose the sword belongs to ?

Supposing it is not Suriage and the first Mekugiana was meant to fit a Tsuka (either alone or together with the second one) in that position, isn't it a little too low and oddly placed ?

Searching material in my HD for something else I stumpled in this one that I forgot to have. Top is Western Han Dynasty, serrated. Lost any other detail.

Thanks Ian. Much more simple than Venice's one, but this has a verifiable origin. Also, the shaft looks to taper from Ishizuki to blade, that should be another point in favour of it being a Kago Yari.

Giuseppe is a memberr here and he was the curator for the "Koelliker" exibition.

Of course, Grey, this makes sense to me too.

Sanjo on "Crescent moon" Munechika, indeed katana-mei.

"hey, I ear you ! You're not signing your sword with your name but making a gimei of mine ! I've counted the strokes !" :lol:

mmm.. when have he received dokuritsu, if ever ?

Matches with Knutsen. I'd go with these.

Yes Jacques, a typo only. Meaning was clear.