Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini

..hehehehe.... I concur. Pics, please.

Thanks Eric.

I think this is entirely possible, but guess, in the ongoing global village, the subdivision in different sectors as "traditional" and "modern" might be unavoidable. The Japanese situation is not the only one around the world, even if surely the most valuable in therms of cultural and economic importance. Italian bladesmithing is also endangered but still resists thru both maintaining traditions and historical accuracy for the purists and producing entirely new models for modernists. But there is always a need for borders. Otherwise hybridation would kill the real thing...

Hey, just for that little thing happening to me and Guido ? Not sure it's worth the money. First my posts are getting rarer and second if I had to make a long post I'll open a Word sheet to write it and then just ctrl+c and ctrl+v... :lol: Gospel.

Ted, guess weren't you the target... But I like alot the "Nihonto worth listening to" matter.

Hi Rich. To me Windows 7 came for free from a MS Beta tester... :D

Thanks Dirk. I'm now trying with the drivers. If any freeze would occur again, i'll let you know.

I don't think you're driving us off-topic. On the contrary, I find interesting the association music-swords. It made me think about the audience and the mean thru which the artists express themselves. I think, in some way, steel is an harder mean of expression then music. Expression thru a bar of steel forged as a sword following the traditional rules can surely give you a certain number of different combinations, but how many of these combinations have already been explored in 1000 years ? Damn, even with music we're now experiencing problems with the possible combinations. Are the rules too stricts ? If we amend rules to help "changes", the traditional work (already endangered) may be at risk of extinction. And as per changes... Are you sure they're not already happened *outside* the NihonTo world, to avoid such rules ? Surely, Rock-n-Roll would have been perceived as nonsense by Bach or Listz. So are now cable-steel based replicas of Katana with their "icy" appearance. Totally "Heretic" (sorry Ford :D ) nonetheless fascinating, even if not following the traditional rules. The "pink panther"... We both know a "Ryu" hiding into an electric blue Saya... Fantastic work, new as idea but would it be considered an evolution or an heresy if made by a Japanese on a Japanese made Saya ? Limits to changes are the rules, the audience or the mean ? Or all three ? I've too much yet to explore in the traditional to worry about need of changes in this craft, so I'm quiet happy to call me out from your troubles.

mmm... effectively if it was the videocard it should happen also somewhere else...

Good idea. Especially with the Norton products. I've been forced to trash my Ghost and 6 months (paid) of 360.

Anyway dentists always have a way out. I've just paid the bill for my children and suddenly Milton's avatar appeared me in a vision, floating over my wallet. :lol:

Brian, I'm experiencing (small) problems with the board running Windows 7 ultimate (1920x1080 resolution). Writing too many lines in a reply exausting the visible space and having to scroll down, gives me problems in the position of cursor. Occasional screen freezing occur, solved only with restarting. Seems not occurring on other boards... Shouldn't be a matter of hardware as I'm on an I7 with 6giga DDR. Any idea ? :?

Ouch, interesting. Persian and indopersian weapons are my other interest. Any picture ? (shameless offtopic request to be eventually fulfilled via PM or e-mail at tsubame1@tin.it)

Ô-: (大) A prefix meaning large, great, greatly Suriage (磨上 or 摺上) shortened If you've already concluded it is not shortened, then how can it be "greatly shortened" ?

Don't worry, mr. Sinclaire. There are much more costly books by other authors that have upside-down Japanese text or chinese swords mistaken for Japanese...

Milt, wherever you're now, you're not forgotten . These are for our "Hawks hunter" :

As this is obviously an exercise of imagination, I like to think the bump was made by the attached item (one with round stiff), being the damages on the Ha either made by re-streightening or by the trapping action of the arms of the Jutte.

Wow, you read Turnbull... great source. Anyway you have just agreed with me : As per the quote you refer to : " L’immobilisation du sabre, le coût de l’opération aboutissait à la récupération de poignées existantes. Il était alors plus facile de percer la lame à l’endroit du mekugi ana de la poignée que de modifier cette dernière." Kitsune is a member here too. Would be interesting to know by him the source of this very interesting (to me) new information and what he thinks about safety of tsuka not specifically made for the blade it is mounted on. Seems to me to remember he's a Martial Arts Master, so surely he knows safety requirements for a sword. To me it looks like he's describing the situation of late Edo impoverished Samurai forced to spare money rather than a practice in use when samurai were real fighters .

Here you make a point, I haven't thought of this but driven by necessity it may have been done, but with a big reserve, it could have been a direct ticket to boothill (I love western movies), our members practicing tameshigiri can elaborate on this solution. This situation reminds me past posts about the purpose of Yasurime. Effectively a long time martial artist should consider carefully the replacement. IMHO : 1) It's simply too hard and time consuming to find a new Tsuka fitting well enough your sword (lenght, width, high to fit Nakago) and it would be made when battle is over. If battle is over no hurge is bothering you to the point to make such a dangerous replacement. 2) Samurai always had spare Daito with them exactly for these occasions, often carried by somebodyelse during the whole campaign (the importance of logistics). In the case such spare swords wouldn't be available (any reason for high ranks, lack of them for lesser Samurai in Sengokujidai) and the battle still was on, better to pick up the whole sword from a dead. I've 2 spare Tsuka for my American-made Tameshigiri sword, guess a professional soldier did the same. Fitting tsuka is light, small, important. Wouldn't you carry one with you for your only sword if you have no spare weapons ? 3) The whole matter seems to not consider the existance of Wakizashi as extrema ratio during the battle.

What about the scabbard ? If it's untouched, the damage likely is earlier enabling the option "Jutte strike" for the big one. Otherwise a "near-miss" bullet might be an option.

Hi Peter. Friendly suggestion before Thor's hammer arrival. Don't you think Japanese is already full enough of omophonies to use them in english too ? Avoiding the 2smart4u-like abbreviations would help non-native english speaker.

If you get really desperate about finding Toshow, it's available on my website too, download page. http://xoomer.virgilio.it/tsubame/ZZZZZZ_DOWNLOADS.htm

I envy you for your copy , Eric.

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