This Week's Edo Period Corner

[Bugyotsuji]

Stunning, Carlo.

[doug e lewis]

Fantastic, Carlo.

 

Beautiful photography.

 

thank you for sharing.

 

doug e

[Bugyotsuji]

Some shots.

[Bugyotsuji]

Nakago jiri Mekugi-ana

[Bugyotsuji]

And for this week's mystery object, watch this space...

 

Well, there are two...

[Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini]

Nakago jiri Mekugi-ana

 

Piers, is it yours ? Any info on where it has been found and who's the polisher ?

[doug e lewis]

Ok Piers,

 

1. is that sword just ancient or gendaito left in the rain?

 

2. is little silver crab bell, right?

 

3. modern art?

 

doug e

[Bugyotsuji]

Nakago jiri Mekugi-ana

 

Piers, is it yours ? Any info on where it has been found and who's the polisher ?

 

Carlo, no it's not mine. I asked where it was found, but felt a slight hesitation in the answer. 'The West' is the closest I could get at the time, and I didn't want to push as it was someone I had met for the first time. I would know how to get in contact again if necessary. I did not ask who the the polisher was. I am pretty sure it will appear in a museum in the not-too-distant future.

 

Doug, 1. the answer is in an earlier post, less than two pages back and begins with an A!

2. Bell, no.

3. Modern art? :lol: (Hint. Start with Onmyoji...)

[Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini]

I asked where it was found, but felt a slight hesitation in the answer. 'The West' is the closest I could get at the time, and I didn't want to push as it was someone I had met for the first time. I would know how to get in contact again if necessary. I did not ask who the the polisher was. I am pretty sure it will appear in a museum in the not-too-distant future.

 

Thanks Piers. If it re-appears, please let me know.

[Bugyotsuji]

The crab is solid silver and carved on the back too.

[Bugyotsuji]

I asked where it was found, but felt a slight hesitation in the answer. 'The West' is the closest I could get at the time, and I didn't want to push as it was someone I had met for the first time. I would know how to get in contact again if necessary. I did not ask who the the polisher was. I am pretty sure it will appear in a museum in the not-too-distant future.

 

Thanks Piers. If it re-appears, please let me know.

 

Do you want to see it?

[Nobody]

And for this week's mystery object, watch this space...

 

Well, there are two...

Now, I will guess them;

1. The silver crab: a mascot usually kept in your purse (財布お守り)

2. The modern art: a Shakujo (錫杖)

[Baka Gaijin]

'morning all,

 

1. The reverse shot looks as if the Crab been roughly fixed to something in its past?

 

 

2. It looks like a Shakujo....

 

However:

Are there more than six rings and how long is it?

Does the box relate to it?

 

 

Cheers

 

Malcolm

[uwe]

...........please enlighten me. What is "Shakujo"

Uwe

[Nobody]

...........please enlighten me. What is "Shakujo"

Uwe

Ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khakkhara

[Bugyotsuji]

Yes, to Koichi san and Malcolm on the Shakujo. As you can see in Kochi san's excellent link, the Shakujo could double as a weapon. The one in the photo just happens to be sitting on a convenient Zeni-bako. Apologies for the distraction!

 

It looks pretty boring at first glance, but what is interesting about this one is that it is iron and not the usual brass. The lacquered handle is about the length of the Tsuka of a Tanto, and the metalwork is set on a Nakago which is locked into the handle with a wooden Mekugi pin. There are twelve rings. All of the wirework frame, starting from the solid inverted head at the pyramid top, ending in the Nakago, is from one single strand, and had my metalworker friends puzzled as to its construction. The thing I like best is the smooth iron baffle plate. The ringing note is wonderfully pure. It is relatively thin at the mimi edges, but gradually grows thicker towards the central hole, producing this gorgeous sound, and leading me to suspect it might have been made by a Tsuba worker, :lol: more so as it is Kitae-teiru and about the size of a large Wakizashi tsuba. Most people who have seen it agree that it is old, and one respected friend said this evening that he is pretty sure it is mid-Edo at least. Whether it is a weapon or not, and whether it could parry a blow from a blade I do not know, but perhaps it could be used in self-defense, or in practise Tsuba-zeri-ai.

 

The silver crab is probably the Tome-gu decoration from the flap of a tobacco pouch. The two patches underneath are where the clip could have been fixed until someone cut this loose from its original pouch and ground them off. (?)

[Bugyotsuji]

...........please enlighten me. What is "Shakujo"

Uwe

 

The sound of the Shakujo will enlighten you!

[Nobody]

Thank you for introducing such interesting items as usual.

[uwe]

Oh, I see ......Thanks Piers.

Uwe

[Nobody]

FYI; Shakujo as a weapon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lO8ddE8EeU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E1BRfPaRco

[Jean]

Shorinji Kempo? I have not seen this for 30 years

[uwe]

Not really a Chokuto, but may be a touch up polish can help........

 

Grubbed out somewhere in Germany

 

Uwe

[Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini]

Hehehe...

 

Uwe, so much Wabi-Sabi there eh ?

[uwe]

......you hit the mark Carlo

Classic example for a real and very expensive Wabi-Sabi piece

Uwe

[loui]

I LOVE THAT SWORD! Very nice Uwe!

[uwe]

Nice project blade, don`t you think Louis :lol:

Uwe

[machinist]

It is beautiful in its own way.

Do you know how it was found?

Looks like it was resting in a river.

[Bugyotsuji]

Agreed. A fantastic mysterious objet d'art. You don't need to do anything to it! No responsibility, just enjoy!

[loui]

Definitely a display piece! No touching that. Make up a cool story though.

[nagamaki - Franco]

Based on the straightness with low sori it must be kambun, and with all that amazing activity combined with the lovely rich color of jigane it just has to be an Osaka piece! Let's see, hmm, Tamba no kami .......... . "nothing in life is permanent"