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  1. Bazza
    We are all Estates in Waiting... BaZZa.
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    Peter, Thanks for the links. Very interesting reading indeed. At the bottom of your second link I followed this: https://www.asahi.co...jw/articles/13961528 and at the bottom of that there were other links I found of interest, but I'll let the curious find them for themselves. Thanks again Peter. BaZZa.
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    Decades ago I saw an Army Shinguntou with full length brown ray skin saya. Sadly, the blade had been badly mistreated and I passed on it, though I hesitated, nearly buying it for the koshirae alone... BaZZa.
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    Ahh, there was one of those foxes-dressed-as-humans in the auction too, but neither the hole in the wall nor my wife would be accommodating. There was no pain, but to venture further I would have felt fear!! BaZZa.
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    Oh yes Colin, both signed, one on the back in the usual position and the other on the side so as not to intrude onto the scene on the back. And indeed inlay work. I'll take some more photos soon and put them up. I've been looking for an example of this work for over 10 years. Do a Board search on HOSONO, there's quite a bit. BaZZa.
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    Piers san, I would have bought it too, though it is the first time I have seen a fuchi for a kashira and a I don't-know-what for a fuchi. Love the saya with its sakurasui lacquer. Perhaps your willing polisher will take it on??? BaZZa. PS: And I know I have bought worse and I've been kicking myself down the road ever since.
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    Show him, show him, show him, stomp, stomp, stomp, both sides, we're with you Comrade... BaZZa. Sucker for lost causes.
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    Yes, Piers san, thanks. During the bidding 'someone' was trying to tell me they wanted them more than I, so I gritted my teeth and girded myself with the thought that the 'hole in the wall' was bottomless!!! I'll be bowing and scraping at the hole for some months to come as my meagre stipend didn't stretch far enough for instant gratification... I feel no pain... Unless I was tussling with another Board member!! BaZZa.
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    I'm often paying obeisance to 'the hole in the wall'... Here is the result of my most recent visit. This was a 'snap' with my mobile phone prior to the auction. BaZZa.
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    That was 'Save As ..' to HDD, then edit, rotate, crop, save as in ACDSee Photo Studio, and attach here... BaZZa.
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    The kashira appears to portray Europeans - Dutch?? So then, is it early Edo?? BaZZa. PS: Agree with Franco that the whole tsuka needs a complete restore by a professional. Maybe not economical, but it would look much, much better. How far to go is the question. Yoon, what is the blade like??
  12. Bazza
    To parrot a topical saying amongst my drinking compadres: "Is green, is good!" BaZZa.
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    Beautiful photos. BaZZa.
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    Piers san, how topical!! Your musings have been pertinent in my house since the Cooper auction here... and for decades before!! I love how you put it "Strangely there’s no sense of pain" BaZZa.
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    Pal, buddy, maaaate, don't talk to me about the 'to do' list..... @bugotsuji BaZZa.
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    @ian B3R2UH @darthlaker Where's the 'Awww, shucks' emoji?? Wonderful people and the Nihontou community worldwide have been the second big step in my life. The first was meeting and marrying my Darling Wife, who 'Lets me' (collect Nihontou!!!). Hats off to yo'all. Barry Thomas aka BaZZa.
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    I beieve TOGISHI use caustic soda to kill any acid, fingers or otherwise. BaZZa.
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    Leave it up. BaZZa, who has been doing the Aussie hard road for 60 years and has seen it all and been there and done that... Thin skin doesn't cut it in the Nihontou world...
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    Bugyotsugi said > If you include Bakumatsu and Meiji wine drinking within the definition of ‘saké’ then I will include these Kutani goblets. Kutani shot glasses - I like that!! BaZZa.
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    Gentle Ffolke, just found this FYI: Here is the home page of the Time and Tide series: https://www3.nhk.or....gram/video/timetide/ And three interesting programs I just watched: History Uncovered: Tsukumo Nasu - Power in a Tea Caddy https://www3.nhk.or....emand/video/3022038/ Takeda Shingen https://www3.nhk.or....emand/video/3022038/ MUSASHI TRUTH https://www3.nhk.or....emand/video/3022013/ BaZZa.
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    It my have been a (or part of a) DAIMYOU OMOCHA ('plaything'). Bob Benson in his BUSHIDOU magazine decades ago had a tanto with solid gold tosogu that was describes a Daimyou's 'plaything'; https://www.jstor.org/stable/1178558 BaZZa.
  22. Bazza
    It really is a good-looking trophy and I love the wood... BaZZa.
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    'Like' with the proviso that the Phillips head screws are replaced with something more arsetistic... BaZZa.
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    Bruce, this may not be a bonji. Naotane is said to have used a katakana kokuin for a town name when he forged swords away from 'home'. I see this as 4 katakana that I have enlarged and translated with a -kana table. At first blush I get HI SHI NA (?) NI (?). I am likely to be way off base... BaZZa.
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    Might have been a real mumei nakago, but surely this is a crudely incised mei with a Dremel tool or a 4-inch nail!!?? BaZZa.
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