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  1. W K Clifford
    Thank you all for replying to my inquiry. Apparently Brian saw this thread and he called me back (or just by sheer coincidence). Cheers!
  2. W K Clifford
    I called Brian Tschernega and left a message a few days ago. So far, no reply. Is he still active? Or just too busy? Any other Habaki maker out there in the US?
  3. W K Clifford
    Not a tsuba, but it is by Ford: https://kramerknives.com/product/vase/
  4. W K Clifford
    o gunto also makes sense...
  5. W K Clifford
    Is it plausible to assume that this is a late Edo / early Meiji period sword, given how popular 頼山陽 was back then among intellectual reformers? The nakago does look the part, right?
  6. W K Clifford
    it is from a poem by 頼山陽 畫　龜 既無神異智。　　既に神異の智なし 豈近廟廊尊。　　豈に廟廊の尊に近ずかんや 曳尾吾生足。　　尾を曳きて吾が生　足る 深泥亦国恩。　　深泥も亦た国恩 I will leave it to you to interpret what that means,
  7. W K Clifford
    forgery.
  8. W K Clifford
    Dear all, I will be in Tokyo next week. Of course I will check out the nihonto collections at the national museum and the nihonto museum. Where else should I go? Maybe a few nihonto shops? Are the staff in these shops friendly towards spectators with no intention to buy? Anybody has done this before?
  9. W K Clifford
    yeah, I am not sure about yours... but there are many Kunimune in the Uda school...
  10. W K Clifford
    I have seen this one before, papered. So, yeah, the one above looks like an imitation and might be gimei.
  11. W K Clifford
    Seconded. The signature has a distinctive style... I am sure one of the more knowledgeable members here will tell you which Uda Kunimune it is. Which temple in Beijing? It is strange to think that a soldier would carry a katana in saya into a battlefield...
  12. W K Clifford
    looks like a forgery to me....
  13. W K Clifford
    I read 祐定
  14. W K Clifford
    Thank you, comrades. It seems that Brian Tschernega does not do emails. Would any of you be so kind as to instruct me on how to contact him?
  15. W K Clifford
    Hi All, I live in California. I have a TBH wakizashi and want to have a new habaki made (in fact possibly a new shirasaya). Any suggestions on how this can be accomplished locally? all the best
  16. W K Clifford
    mei： 兼重 kaneshige kinzogen: 大久保(surname) 玄番頭(title of a court official, not a very high office, about lower rank 5) 所持(in the possession of...) 九十一歲(ninety-one years old) 指之(not sure what this means) 寬文八年戊申五月吉辰(May, the eighth year of kanban, ... )
  17. W K Clifford
    I am reasonably sure it is...
  18. W K Clifford
    重虔 not sure how to pronounce the second kanji in Japanese
  19. W K Clifford
    more pictures.
  20. W K Clifford
    I posted the tsuba before. Finally I shot some pictures of the whole thing. Naturally I would like to hear your opinions. Is it worth a polish?
  21. W K Clifford
    actually in picture 44, if you stare at it for long enough, the traces left my the gold ink do look like "Masamune" Is it possible that Hirohito gave away a Masamune sword, perhaps in a moment of drunken confusion combined with blissful ignorance? By the way, simple googling shows that your Hirohito's signature does look right.
  22. W K Clifford
    are these on permanent display? I am going to visit the twin cities in a few weeks. will be delighted to check out their collection.
  23. W K Clifford
    you are right, Martin! this was a gold watch then...
  24. W K Clifford
    odachi is the only thing i can think of, but i could not find any picture online of a fully mounted adachi that sports a tsuba of this size. one example that did come to my mind is this sword carried by Kikuchiro in Seven Samurai, played by Mifune. there are a few shots in which the tsuba on that sword is shown, i'd bet it is over 10cm across. however, this tsuba above was made in mid Edo period. if it was made for an odachi, then what was that odachi for? maybe for use in religious rituals?
  25. W K Clifford
    i think this is right.
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