Geraint Posted July 21, 2015 Report Posted July 21, 2015 An interesting tanto on Aoi Art at the moment. An unusual blade form for Mino den but have a look at the koshirae. http://www.aoijapan.com/tanto-noshu-seki-ju-kanesuke-saku Any thoughts? All the best
Brian Posted July 21, 2015 Report Posted July 21, 2015 Yep. Obviously made for someone with the Dutch East India Company. Usually we see the VOC logo in Namban tsuba. Here it is subtly added to the kashira. Interesting koshirae, probably made to a Western taste. And there are those brass kogatana again. See them occasionally lately. Presentation use? Brian Added the pic here to have relevance long after that page is gone.
Brian Posted July 21, 2015 Report Posted July 21, 2015 And apparently nothing slips past our members http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/17233-for-the-historically-minded/ Brian
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