Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini

Nice one Piers. 3+1 Yari ? Are you preparing a squad of Yari Ashigaru to defend the already established squad of Teppo Ashigaru ? :lol: As my wife *effectively* doesn't list me anymore (from the arrival of my 2 children I got the bottom of the list of priorities), it's handy the fact she hasn't the safe's keys. Can't check what's into

From the homepage links : http://www.nihontokanjipages.com/reading.html Nagayama's one is likely the best choice for the bucks in the list (to start with).

mmm.. Seems signed to me. But has no nagashi on the habakimoto...

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A nightmare for a Togishi...

Not only yours is dropping. Fantastic.

Hi Piers. Really senseless. quote from the article A 14-year-old boy was fatally stabbed in a "senseless" attack by a gang armed with baseball bats, knives and a samurai sword ...unquote. If you want to kill somebody you have *lots* of choices about the "with something". Time ago a boy was killed with a fishing sling and a steel ball. Psicologically challenged people is rising in number due to a lot of reasons and this gives to authorities the reason to make senseless and useless laws. Reality is that "The mother of morons is always pregnant" and sadly, unlike fora, you can't ban them from the society.

Done Clay: http://www.intk-token.it/forum/index.php?showtopic=3669 Thanks for your efforts.

Darcy, this is a most interesting topic to me. If there is nothing against the matter a few lines written by you about the tools/tricks of monitor calibration for Swords appreciation would be a *great* sticky, Brian allowing. Here in Italy is already Mojito time, too few Ruhm to ruin anything... :D

I'm very envyous Milt. A very nice Jumonji indeed.

Fantastic Kogatana, Moriyama-san.

Right,right Jean. As you've stated, I'm beginning to see later copies and next step would be the proverbial Tea leaves that Guido mentioned... :lol:

Ok, enough to bang my head on the keybord... For what it's worth :

Using a qwerty, it's a typo...

Great, John. The matter is really interesting. Hope it'll sort out an enrichment for both fora. Edit to add the links (hope isn't a problem for Bian) : http://forums.samurai-archives.com/viewtopic.php?t=3205 http://forums.samurai-archives.com/viewtopic.php?t=3206

John, if your time zone is more favourable, you can oviously post them more quickly then me.

Let me return home from work and it'll be done.

:D

...great, Morita san.

If the original poster wantn't register there I or John can post the matter. Let us know.

Where the acid wasn't applied ? Or do you think it's re-tempered implying it's genuine ?

Here you go : http://www.ksky.ne.jp/~sumie99/sword14.html#Namazu-hada So well that it hides with the outer one. From http://www.ksky.ne.jp/~sumie99/shingane.html "In 12th century, most of good blades are made of fine steel for both core steel and outer steel. A tachi of "Masatsune" (Ko-Bizen, 12-13c) The blade is a little tired as the hamon in kissaki worn out. The hamon is ko-midare pattern made of bright konie (small particles). The steel is very fine all over the surface of the blade. By careful studying, the brightness of the hamon particles is not even along the blade length. Most of the hamon is bright, but several parts are a little down brightness. The steel changes at the parts of down brightness. Maybe core steel comes up in several parts of the blade, but the quality is almost the same to the outer steel."

:lol: This is one I've to remember. Wish others had your humilty.

Even if the hada effectively looks similar to the one of modern replicas the arrows point to what IMHO *look like* small forging defects, that shouldn't be there on a modern fake made out of factory-folded (then omogeneous and smooth) steel. Not sure modern non-Japanese smiths are comfortable in making Omiyari from steel folded by themselves. Hence the acid-polish and cleaned nakago answer seems to me more plausible from the given pictures, and with reserve. You that can handle the blade can surely also look at Kizu in a better way, maybe searching for others in other parts of the blade. Still, the single kanji is in a strange position. The supposedly cut-away part of the Nakago doesn't match with the missing of the needed rest of the inscription.

Nice piece. Mekugiana on Kogatana might be a good topic on its own.