Interesting Koshirae

[Blazeaglory]

At first I thought "chicken dragon" but realized it was a Phoenix

 

https://www.aoijapan.com/katana-mumie-unsigned/

[SAS]

We had a thread on those not too long ago, someone will bring it up shortly i presume. 

[Guest Rayhan]

Oh here we go (facepalm)

[Blazeaglory]

Lol no chicky dragon?

 

Here maybe this is better

[Curran]

  On 10/25/2018 at 4:51 AM, Rayhan said:

Oh here we go (facepalm)

 

+1

[TETSUGENDO]

Related koshirae has been discussed here before, but this is a different variant.  Very nice!

 

-S-

[Stephen]

Yes he got off to a bad start,yes  hes still raw in nihonto, so i dont get here we go again, esp by two noted member of great taste. What am i missing, 

 

Starting another countdown this for real, just tired of it all.

[Guest Rayhan]

  On 10/25/2018 at 1:25 PM, Stephen said:

Yes he got off to a bad start,yes hes still raw in nihonto, so i dont get here we go again, esp by two noted member of great taste. What am i missing,

 

Starting another countdown this for real, just tired of it all.

This "here we go again" is with reference to the Koshirae....remember...the horses, Lol!

[TETSUGENDO]

The koshirae he presents is distincly different than the others posted here before.  If all that was posted here was never seen unique material........there would be precious few posts.  How many times can we look at the same gunto koshirae, or what are essentially the same tsuba with minute variations......forever it seems.  This is the nature of many things, but some revel in minutiae.  So how is this any different?

 

-S-

[Ray Singer]

The Hagiya Katsuhira koshirae is owned by Mike Yamasaki and I believe has been brought to several of of the N. California study sessions for others to enjoy. The (Kencho) Kanenaga Ju-to inside is nothing to sneeze at either. Link and detail photos below.

 

http://tetsugendo.com/swords/C_115_Kanenaga_Katsuhira.html

 

 

  On 10/25/2018 at 5:22 AM, Blazeaglory said:

Lol no chicky dragon?

Here maybe this is better

 

[Blazeaglory]

Thanks. I can take the criticism.

 

But is the original Phoenix koshirae Chinese or Japanese? Looks to be of Chinese influence. On AOI site his pictures are much better and it actually has a serious amount of detail.

 

Yes the second "dragon" koshirae is amazing and houses an equally amazing sword.

 

PS. Thers a horse koshirae? I'm year of the horse????

[Brian]

Nothing wrong with either of these. Light years ahead of that Chinese horse koshirae we dealt with before.

[TETSUGENDO]

Dwain,

 

You do not want to see the infamous horse koshirae, believe me, no one who has seen it wants to see it again.  It is the stuff of nightmares, some thing are best left undisturbed.

 

-S-

[Blazeaglory]

The horse agrees

 

[Guido]

http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/12543-bird-head-tsuka/

[Blazeaglory]

  On 10/25/2018 at 11:22 PM, Guido Schiller said:

http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/12543-bird-head-tsuka/

I see Markus did a little write up on similar tsuka so I'll check out more into that thread.

 

Here's the sword in this particular koshirae

[Vermithrax16]

  On 10/25/2018 at 2:33 PM, raymondsinger said:

The Hagiya Katsuhira koshirae is owned by Mike Yamasaki and I believe has been brought to several of of the N. California study sessions for others to enjoy. The (Kencho) Kanenaga Ju-to inside is nothing to sneeze at either. Link and detail photos below.

 

http://tetsugendo.com/swords/C_115_Kanenaga_Katsuhira.html

 

 

 

artofsamurai_719.jpg

While outstanding, this one Mike has, to me, is even better:

http://tetsugendo.com/swords/MS_214_Tameyasu.html