Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini

I suspected something wasn't working. I've sent a test e-mail today too but got no confirmation of delivering...

@ K.Morita San: Is there any chance to have the translation of the inscriptions on the Nakago ?

Hi Paul. Finally, welcome. Likely you're too busy, so I understand your present-day lack of contact with me. I'll buy this book as soon as I find the working link (this one seems broken). Anybody else here have troubles with him or can help me to find the right one ? P.S. Paul, still that Koshirae book pending. Have I to reach you in Japan or have I to ask W.Y. Chan kun to make it for me ? Have a nice and proficuous experience. Then, please, share share share... :D

The world is little, and NihonTo world even more... :lol:

A very interesting topic. If anything more is available please share. I suppose such sources are hard to find or to have access to.

Hehehe... It depends. In the Stibbert Museum, Florence, there is a sword attributed to Ietsugu, Chu-Aoe, around 1390 that is nicknamed "Kaminari" :

Thanks Danny. Most of the articles on your site are now on my HD for their usefulness. Keep posting your work and many thanks for sharing.

Venger, if you decide for the purchase, would you kindly post some pictures of this baby please ?

I've bumped up it hoping new members will appreciate the pics. Thanks for posting.

Paul, if you're lurking here please subscribe/post. Otherwise I'll be forced to pay you the amazing book about Koshirae you sent me. I'm not kidding... :lol:

What I meant, but I didn't know if I was allowed to post it publically...

I guess and hope Paul Martin will give us the opportunity to have more info and transaltions about this smith soon.

LOL !

Very nice work, Nostro.

Mike, no matter about what will come out, the blade is a beauty, even only by these pics. You're a lucky man.

AFAIK he was the only Gaijin to have been patented as nihonto smith by Japanese authorities. There is a good article about him somewhere in my HD but I'm at work now..

Not a Naginata, but a Yari with similar features and same period (middle-late XIX c.) should be in Castello Sforzesco, Milan. Guess it was made for Daimyo processions or as cheap items for tourists.

Off-topic but... are there higaki-yasuri ?

trying to cut, at your own risk...

Hi Pete. Really interesting, thanks. I'm spreading the link with full credit to you. Carlo

A nice work on the saya (in the visible part) for such a fake...

Seems you've got a rare one...

I agree Mike. If it was mine it would remain as is.

Anyway, I've seen on another forum a pics taken from a Nakago that had the Gimei removed. Astonishingly near to perfection. The blade belong to a fellow forumite and I highly regret to have not saved the pic on my HD to have it as a reference. :|

Hi Ricky. Seems my Senpai agree with your theory (still a grain of saltto be used ?) : quote... Some Japanese texts gives as the starter of the rai school to Kunitoshi I father of Kuniyuki that was father of Kunitoshi (Niji or Rai). Today as exists Tachi signed Kuniyuki but no works of Kunitoshi I (at least surely attributed to him) exists, the starter of the Rai school is belived ot be Kuniyuki. Kunitoshi I (the grandfather) klived in the Koryo period (?) in Korea during the mongolian invasion ended in 1231. He fled in Japan were his skill was appreciated and took the name of Kunitoshi, emracing the Japanese way of smithing, (awataguchi?). Perhaps the Kanji for Kuni in Kuniyuki is different because of taken by the name of the father that was not able to correctly write the Japanese yet. This is only a theory. ...unquote.