Jussi Ekholm Posted February 21, 2013 Report Posted February 21, 2013 Hello all fellow NMB members. I am Jussi Ekholm from Finland, I have been pretty quiet in the forum, as I usually just read here because I rarely yet have any real information to add to discussions. Over the years this have been a learning place for me, but I do intend to post more often in here in the future as I learn more. Some might have also seen me in other sword forums in the Internet. I've been studying nihonto since I was 16, and now that I'm nearing to finish my BBA studies in Tampere University of Applied Sciences, I had to choose what would be the subject of my graduation work. As my love for nihonto is so great, I started to think how I could combine nihonto with business studies. I came up with an idea of creating a small market analysis on nihonto market, and to my surprise it was accepted. We have very limited amount of information about nihonto in Finnish language. My goal is to provide some light to that, as I intend to give this work to our small nihonto community, antique arms communities and several martial arts communities for free. Of course my work will not be much, but I hope it might inspire someone new into nihonto world. Brian was kind to let me use NMB to help get in touch with collectors. I have included here a small and short 15 question survey, which I hope many will answer to. I tried to keep it short and questions so that they'll allow me quite easily to analyze them as a group. Of course I will protect the anonymity of all those that answer, and I will be the only one seeing the answers. This survey is very basic in form and the questions are also very general. There would have been hundreds of questions I'd love to ask, but I tried to ask those that would give the most help in regards to final work. The final work will include general information about nihonto and nihonto market, collectors view (based on this survey) and a dealers view (I will be doing a worldwide survey to dealers as well). I'm not sure if you can PM me back the answer document, but you can email the answers to me at jussi.ekholm@hotmail.com If you have any questions or thoughts feel free to post them here or by PM or email. Thanks for taking the time to read this, and here is the small survey. Nihonto Survey Collectors.docFetching info... Quote
Marius Posted February 21, 2013 Report Posted February 21, 2013 Jussi, a word of advice - why not using some free online survey service? It would have been easier for us and for you? Quote
b.hennick Posted February 21, 2013 Report Posted February 21, 2013 I have used the services of a free site called survey monkey. It is easy to use. Quote
Marius Posted February 21, 2013 Report Posted February 21, 2013 Survey Monkey allows only 10 questions (in the free subscription). I guess Jussi will have to be more concise Quote
sanjuro Posted February 21, 2013 Report Posted February 21, 2013 Jussi. I think for what you are trying to achieve there are a few redundant questions in your survey. So, a trimming would allow you to use the service that Mariusz or Barry have suggested. Quote
Jussi Ekholm Posted February 21, 2013 Author Report Posted February 21, 2013 Thank you very much for all the answers so far. In regards to free online survey sites, I have to say I wasn't aware such things existed. I tried to create two different online forms using our schools survey tools, but I wasn't happy with either of them, so I decided to go on with more old school approach. Even though I'm a child of the Internet age, I'm just old fashioned in so many ways. And personally I'm not a big fan of clicking some of multiple options in surveys, free fields allow more precise answer when needed (of course free fields can be made on those online surveys too, but my Internet-fu wasn't strong enough). I know few questions might seem bit out of place, but I'm planning writing my work in the way that it will be bit "narrative" (I can't explain it fully in English, but I'm aiming at least parts of it in this way so even those who do not collect nihonto will not bore when reading it). As we have only very few collectors here in Finland, I'm trying to aim the final work to be easily readable by all who have some intrest in Japanese swords. But the answers I have gotten are really great, and exactly what I have hoped for. Quote
Jorgensen Posted February 21, 2013 Report Posted February 21, 2013 Mail sent... Maybe you can post the result of your survey here, when done =) Quote
Brian Posted March 3, 2013 Report Posted March 3, 2013 Just a bump for those who forgot or who didn't have time yet. Only took 2 minutes. Brian Quote
SwordGuyJoe Posted March 3, 2013 Report Posted March 3, 2013 Very painless. I hope we see the results! Quote
Jussi Ekholm Posted March 4, 2013 Author Report Posted March 4, 2013 Thank you very much, I have gotten many answers from all over the world. And the answers will give me much valuable data for my research. I will intend to provide English language translation of the collector view analysis of my work (the history of nihonto part has been covered so much better by more knowledgeable men in English) when it will be finished. Of course this will not be professional level work, but I believe that there might be a thing or two which might evoke some discussion on certain things. But I have to say that it's been very intresting to read the answers, and I hope I can provide fairly good qualitative analysis on it. I'll be taking answers for at least a week or two more. Then I'll have to fully kick in the analysing part. But nihonto community has again been great, people among this hobby are always very nice towards others. Quote
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