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TETSUGENDO
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Not tosogu but a great example of the motif.

b.hennick
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A recent thread had an okimono of a shiachi. They tend to be a quite rare subject for fittings. I thought that you might enjoy some iron shiachi menuki.    

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Not exactly a sword fitting! …this is one that “got away”. this wonderful full size Shachihoko from the roof of a temple was available in a gallery in London (Robert Brandt) a few years ago.  Suc

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Cruising around here today and saw this thread which has been active quite a while.  

 

On 12/6/2022 at 2:36 AM, Bugyotsuji said:

Beware the ones coming to eat your castle! They’ll swallow you like Udon.

 

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Piers, I took these atop Himeji Castle

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26 minutes ago, Bugyotsuji said:

Colin, nice, is that a Shachi menuki?

Hi Piers

oops….I thought they were but upon very close inspection they might be “normal” dragons twined around/through a tree!!! 
Must remember to put my specs on first!

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Hi friends,

 

Additional pictures of one of the examples I posted in this thread previously. 

 

Seems pretty minimalist, but the shachi head appears so well done to me. 

 

Not a typical Kinai style (based on all the reference material I've seen), assuming signature is authentic.

 

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Another we haven't seen... this one by the Hazama school.

The clever thing about this one is that the two thick lines are "beams" that cross each other at an angle to make a "peak", inferring an abstract "roof top" where you'd typically see one of these shachi dragons.

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And another one (both listed at Ginsa Chosuya) that has that more "whale" shaped version of the shachi, by Choshu Tomotomi:

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