Nihonto Mag 2

[Clive Sinclaire]

Gentlemen

I have pleasure in informing you that Issue 2 of Nihonto Magazine is now on our website at http://www.To-ken.com. There are 20 swords, 6 tsuba and interesting comments from Robert Haynes. At the moment this is freely available so I hope you find it useful and informative. Let me know your thoughts.

Regards

Clive Snclaire

[drbvac]

No surprises here Mr. Sinclaire - excellent as I would expect - great pictures and descriptions of all items. Do you believe they will continue to offer these to people who don't subscribe or pay ?

 

Thanks for these in any event.

[John A Stuart]

Always interesting, Clive. Thank you. John

[Jean]

Thanks Clive

[falconj]

looks great Clive, many thanks,

 

ps:" Can't retire - spent most of my money on women, liquor, german cars and Nihonto -- all the rest - I wasted. "

 

wow, are you sure you are not an Australian? Dr Barrett :lol:

regards

John

[Brian]

Clive,

That is a high quality "publication" you are putting out there, with excellent info and pics. Wish you the best with it, and if it ever goes subscription only we may have to sign up

 

Brian

[Clive Sinclaire]

Gentlemen

if it ever goes subscription only we may have to sign up

Gentlemen

We have an AGM coming up soon and there are a number of things we need to discuss regarding the website. As the annual membership is only £10 (£15 for the first year) it does not seem excessive but I feel that we should give members something more for their money, not available to non-members. Making Nihon-to available to them exclusively may be just such a thing. Some of the up-coming issues have some really great stuff in them (such as National Treasure swords and translations from To-ken Bijutsu). A discussion on whether or not we should have a commercial section, in which members might buy and sell, is another area that needs to be explored.

Such weighty questions need many glasses of the amber nectar to help focus the mind and consider fully!

Clive Sinclaire

[cfm15]

Thank you for the sword porn. It gives me motivation to go out to the shop and do the yaki-ire on the tanto I finished forging last week.

[christianmalterre]

Dear Clive,

 

just an inquiery here-is there an printed copy of Vol.I and II. available so to purchase directly?

(Maybe in form like your´s Token Society Journals)(?)

(i do hate reading articles online-prefer to hold "paper" in hands...)

 

Let me know please...

 

Christian

[John A Stuart]

Hi Clive, I wonder if associate memberships for foreign enthusiasts might help with sustaining your production. I shall probably never be able to attend a GBTS meeting, but, would offer support. John

[Jean]

Clive,

 

There is a typo on sword 8 - Ichimonji - it can't be dated "kansei", must be a copy and paste of the Munetsugu tanto.

[Clive Sinclaire]

Christian - sorry no hard copies available, hence we are putting it onto the website.

Jean, well spotted - we will correct it asap - what would I do without you!

Clive Sinclaire

[Jean]

Clive,

 

I don't want want to seem to interfere with your magazine, but speaking with experience, would not it be better not to put after the Japanese date "Approx. xxx years old" for as time passes, the "Approx. " becomes wrong : I am going to give you two examples:

 

N°8 Ichimonji - Mid Kamakura - Approx. 700 years ago. Of course it is wrong as 700 years ago was End of Kamakura

 

N° 18 Yoshimichi - Kanbun era - Osaka - approx 320 years old. It is obviously a typo, it should read 350 years old

 

Swords 16/17: the approx. is also wrong ...

 

It looks like the approx. has been establish 20/30 years ago, this can be explained by

" From the Extra Summer Issue of Rei Magazine, Issue No. 36 of Heisei 5"

but it should be amended

 

Sword 19 - it is Kanemichi and not Kabemichi as well in the Title as in the mei translation

 

No. 20 Wakizashi - Kunemasu no it is KUNIMASA

[Clive Sinclaire]

Jean

It is a very interesting point that you made and it has crossed my mind before. The problem is that I wanted to reproduce the magazines exactly as they were originally published, rather than change them in any way. Even when we published them in about 1994-99, this may have been a problem, but we do say that they are taken from the Heisei 5 issue of Rei magazine for instance, which should put everything into context.

However, your corrections to my inacurate and careless typing errors on the other swords is most welcome - keep it up!

Regards

Clive Sinclaire

[Jean]

Thanks Clive for your answer, in fact I went directly to the swords I was interested in as will have done a lot of careless people (I was one of them ). It is only after noticing this 30 years time spread in all the swords age that I began searching in the Introduction if there was any indication of the area when this text was written.