Torigoye Book Translation

[kissakai]

Hi

I bought the book Tsuba Kanshoki by Torigoye, 1975 with English descriptions from Mike via the NMB

Great to have such a nice book especially as it is a limited edition

The tsuba images all come with an English translation and this was another reason for buying it

Unfortunately the leading introduction which consist of quite a number of pages is only in Japanese 

Does any one have or know of an English translation for this book?

If not do you think there is any chance of scanning the pages and putting it though a translator although it would be time consuming and it will be full of errors

 

 

Grev UK

 

[Pete Klein]

I believe it would end up being gibberish. Perhaps it would be better to talk with Marcus about a possible translation?

 

PS: With so many people owning this book I would imagine there would be broad interest in having a translation done so the cost could be spread out.

[kissakai]

I thought it would be gibberish

It's to long to ask someone to translate just for my use

I'll see if I can get a Japanese person to read it to me

 

 

Grev UK

[Steve Waszak]

Pete's idea is the way to go.  I certainly would be interested in contributing to a translation project for Markus on this book.  The problem with having a Japanese person read it for you, Grev, is that unless this person has some good knowledge of the terminology/concepts attached to tsuba study, he or she may have some difficulty in communicating that terminology/those concepts with precision and clarity. 

 

Cheers,

 

Steve