Update

[Clive Sinclaire]

Gentlemen

Since coming back home from Japan, I have been keeping my "web master" busy with updates to the the Token Society of Great Britan's website at http://www.To-ken.com

The entries are on various subjects relatef the Japanese swords and I would greatly welcome any comments you might care to make. The topics are:

 

1) Diary of the Restoration of a Japanese Armour - Part 8. This job which has taken slight;ly in excess of 2 years is now complete and I am very pleased with the result. It is now on display in my sword room at home.

 

2) in our UK Sword Register, the latest, No.129 is a blade signed ]Hizen Kuni Ju Fujiwara Tadayoshi. I strongly suspect that this may be Tosa (no) Kami Tadayoshi and I would especially like to hear other opinions, although I think iit may be difficult to tell from my poor oshigata.

 

3) Whilst in the Dubliner's in Shinjuku I got chatting (as you do) with an Irish customer who showed me a cutting in that day's

Japan Times, of a surrendered sword that was recently returned to the family of the World War 2 owner. This is reproduced on our site but you may have already seen it on the ubiquitous Paul Martin's s website.

 

4) And finally, we feel it may be necessary to state our Societie's position, should members encounter difficulties with disreputable dealers, agents, polishers etc - it is a wiicked world we live in!

 

Clive Sinclaire