Markus Posted June 2, 2014 Report Posted June 2, 2014 As promised earlier in my discussion thread on future publications, I started to make available my signatures archive, beginning with koto. Of course I am working hard on finishing the Tameshigiri book which is the actual work, i.e. the KOTO-MEIKAN was "just" organizing pics of mei which are already on my HD. A SHINTO-MEIKAN will follow soon. The book comes as hardcover, 696 pages, and presents about 2,000 nakago pics of about 900 koto smiths. Also practical should be the eBook version to compare signatures on the spot with your tablet. Details can found on my blog: http://markussesko.wordpress.com/2014/0 ... to-meikan/ Thanks for your attention and now I am going back to write on sword tests... Quote
Brian Posted June 2, 2014 Report Posted June 2, 2014 You are seriously going to bankrupt us all Brian Quote
Markus Posted June 2, 2014 Author Report Posted June 2, 2014 Haha, the workshop strikes back. I am not going crazy right now but as mentioned in the other thread, it doesn´t make much sense to let my signature archive rot on my HD. Apart from that I will be in the US soon and finish there the other big project mentioned. This is also why I push all these things right now to focus then on just the one thing. Forgot the mention: If you have all the thick Japanese meikan at home, mine doesn´t add much of course. But if you don´t have a meikan yet and need a reference on your tablet (or as hardcover copy) for signature comparisons, mine is probably the easiest and most affordable option. Quote
Marius Posted June 2, 2014 Report Posted June 2, 2014 Bought it right away, now I have to find some time to go through it. Markus, you are a treasure! Quote
cabowen Posted June 2, 2014 Report Posted June 2, 2014 Congrats! Where did the oshigata come from? Did you make each personally or were they previously published somewhere? Quote
Markus Posted June 2, 2014 Author Report Posted June 2, 2014 Thanks Chris and all! Sorry for being not clear enough. Would love to have such a big oshigata rubbing experience but the mei I have in my archive were all published somewhere and were collected over the years. Quote
Gilles Posted June 2, 2014 Report Posted June 2, 2014 Markus, I fully agree with Brian, you are going to bankrupt us all...... but anyway, I need this book Quote
Stephen Posted June 2, 2014 Report Posted June 2, 2014 do we have a active lulu coupon code for this. would you show us one of the oshigata pages? Quote
Ed Posted June 2, 2014 Report Posted June 2, 2014 Stephen, Click on the link above to the book, click on "Hardcover copy" then hit preview. Quote
cabowen Posted June 2, 2014 Report Posted June 2, 2014 I have thousands of oshigata and have long thought of collecting them by period and province and publishing something along the lines of your work. What has always stopped me is the copyright issue. Have you obtained permission to publish each oshigata or are you simply winging it? Quote
Stephen Posted June 2, 2014 Report Posted June 2, 2014 got mine, thanks for the code Barry and thanks Ed I did the wrong one Quote
Markus Posted June 3, 2014 Author Report Posted June 3, 2014 @Chris: I have the permission to publish for about 95% of the oshigata in this book. The other roughly 5% are where I asked and never got any reply and forgot over the years where they came from. So for them, yes, I eventually just put them in the book. If anybody feels that one of them is his oshigata published without permission, I can disclose sales figures to work something out. Anyway, the copyright issue is the reason for why I didn´t use any oshigata/nakago pics from dealer sites. Those accumulated over the years are just saved for my own reference. Quote
falconj Posted June 3, 2014 Report Posted June 3, 2014 Markus, do you have an estimated time of publishing for the Shinto meikan? ( that will give me an idea how long I have to dream up an excuse to tell her how important this will be for me ) regards John Quote
Markus Posted June 3, 2014 Author Report Posted June 3, 2014 @John: The SHINTO-MEIKAN should be available in a couple of weeks, but I have to check if it fits with the SHINSHINTO-MEIKAN or if that needs a separate volume (what is rather the case). On the other thread you asked about the hardcover copy of my swordsmith index. It is available here: http://www.bod.de/buch/markus-sesko/ind ... 02508.html I think it should work for Australia as the other John got them shipped to Canada. Quote
Ian Posted June 5, 2014 Report Posted June 5, 2014 Thank You Markus Got mine and some more today. What a fantastic job you have done! Quote
paulb Posted June 5, 2014 Report Posted June 5, 2014 Mine arrived today Thank you Markus. as always it is an excellent piece of work and must have reference for anyone interested in Ko-To Looking forward to the Shinto/shin-shinto volumes Best Regards Paul Quote
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