Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini

Seems to me too...

Hi Mike. Glad to have you here. Both of us are right. 9/11 under the Habaki, 6 on the Mune near the Kissaki. :D it's supposed Fujishiro's school signes a couple line less. But I'm not sure.

Sometimes you can find the same on the Mune near the Kissaki too. Hon'nami is said to sign with 6 lines : Never seen a Kanjii as signature, me too. But there are so many things I've never seen...

Interesting and... Diabolic! :lol:

I fear that wiki site will be butchered by korean, chinese and Japanese sword extremists, amending and deleting each other's work. EDIT : better to say people with clashing points of view. I feel many western "Sammyri" will act there too. Sites as the ones made by people enlisted hereabove are reliable and well done, so at the end they'll still remain a more reliable source to start with. The great resource of wiki is that everybody can contribute to it. The great weakness of wiki is that everybody can contribute to it.

Visual glossary for Tsuba's shapes in a Kodogu book ?

I've seen a couple concerts of these ones : http://www.kodo.or.jp/frame.html greats, IMHO. you can see clips on my site here : http://xoomer.alice.it/tsubame/ZZZZZZ_MUSIC.htm The three down...

Yes, he's not Junk-ei, :lol:

This is very informative...

What about Nata ? Its section seems more appropriate to cut bamboo then heads as a kubikiri tanto should make. Anyway I'm discussig the same blade on an italian forum and the same doubt arise immediatly. The different Kissaki and the Hi are a matter that shouldn't be on a Nata. Is there any noble soul that can translate the kanji describing this item ? Another one, a Nata for sure (?), is hereunder. Nagasa: 31.88cm, , Katakiriha, matsukawa hada, Suguha, (Thanks to Giuseppe Piva http://www.giuseppepiva.com for the images) : Its kissaki : Its signature : Its Koshirae :

I wish my english was as your italian is.

There is the possibility is a typo. I've both the "modern" Nagayama and the ancient version with Japanese text and Token society of Great Britain translation. In the old translation (that obviously don't match in page number) *apparently* there is no such a term. I've a backup scan-version in adobe acrobat and its search function gives me no results for "kogori". EDIT : with a better search engine I got 13 results. Seems it's quiet common and described as "lumps of Nie" (page 79 of original Japanese text). See also Awataguchi Kuniyasu Bizen Den Kamakura period (and others).

Hi all. I'm kindly asking if anybody has pictures showing the use of turtle shell in Koshirae. Information about school and period very welcomed as well. Thanks for your time.

Wasn't aware that Gassan Sama was enroled by Bugei to make swords for them... :D Here's the Togishi's one in better resolution and single movie : http://www.channelj.co.jp/meta/intr12_k ... 020204.asx

This makes a lot of sense.

The hypotesis matches with the way it has been removed. You can figure out how much the Nakago has been shortened ?

Another very interesting subject. I've seen Gakumei removed from doomed blade to enhance healty ones, but never an healty blade mutilated this way. The old tales about Muramasa and Tokugawa's bans about his works comes to mind, but seems this is not the case. Seems not a clean cut. Why the heck such a rip ?

I'm his customer too, but for books. Really warm and friendly.

Hi Rob. I'm not entitled to give authoritative suggestions, but here is my 2 eurocents : avoid the hurge of buying. It should result in a VERY expensive lesson as was for me. A sword can seem cheap before restoration and be too expensive after. Still a good sword, but paid too much. Not a bargain. Books/knowledge (trips to meetings) are the best first investment. Cheers.

Very strong. Will last forever even with everyday use of ring-bound.

I wonder if something similar is *really* happened one day to Mr. Yamaguchi and now he's jocking about that... :lol:

To be honest, my family was royalist rather then fascist, and suffered for this...

Hi fj. Yes, Dolomites are my preferred winter-holydays site. Summer is devoted to the desires of the real King of the House, my wife... :lol: cheers. Carlo

Just bought a nice book about Kiyomaro and Kotetsu...

What I've found in my HD. Here the mass-produced ShinGunto were made : and assembled : Celebrating Victory : Ancient treasures together with junk ones : bigger is better : their final fate :