Big('s) Discoveries

[BIG]

Shiseido you tube..

 

https://www.shiseidogroup.com/artsandcrafts/japanesesword/

 

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[BIG]

Honjo Eijiro article about social changes during Tokugawa period..

 

https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/125171/1/ecb0031_056.pdf

 

 

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[BIG]

Sword presented after Emperor's birth..

 

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/24/national/sword-presented-emperors-birth-displayed-kyoto-shrine/#.XNPPVevuKK0

 

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[BIG]

Not expensive Naotane katana ...

 

https://www.aoijapan.com/katana-73-okina-shoji-mino-suke-fujiwara-naotane-kao/

 

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[BIG]

Using specially prepared steel. Sanmei com

 

http://www.sanmei.com/contents/media/A69560_E.html

 

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[BIG]

Caption competition..

 

https://www.military-history.org/articles/mhm-june-caption-competition.htm/amp

 

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[BIG]

Germany and Japan..

 

https://www.ghi-dc.org/fileadmin/user_upload/GHI_Washington/Publications/Bulletin58/bu58_47.pdf

 

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[BIG]

Chinese power..what do we need to know

 

https://www.dia.mil/Portals/27/Documents/News/Military%20Power%20Publications/China_Military_Power_FINAL_5MB_20190103.pdf

 

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[Tom Darling]

Hi Peter,

 

The Naotane that is illustrated is not the Naotane offered?  He is referring to a mumei o-suriage Naotane?  Am I misunderstanding this?

 

 

Tom D.

[BIG]

Hi Tom, o-suriage but not mumei, Tsuruta san raks this jo saku and the blade is in the wakizashi price range.

 

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[BIG]

Punishment and Power in the Tokugawa period

 

Pdf by Dani V. Botsman

 

http://www.eastasianhistory.org/sites/default/files/article-content/03/EAH03_01.pdf

 

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[BIG]

Touken Matsumoto blog..

 

Polishing event..http://www.touken-matsumoto.jp/eng/blog/

 

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[BIG]

German Samurai..

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5lza6jSKCeQ

 

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[Tom Darling]

Hi Peter, 

 

The Naotane is tachi mei, not a katana. O-suriage mumei (signature is removed), blade looks ubu to me?  It would be a steal if it was right.

 

Regards

 

Tom D.

[BIG]

Hi Tom, Katana is Tachi mei ( ura mei) , o-suriage is not common, and for that price it's really a bargain.

 

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[Guido]

Ō-suriage is *always* mumei. But the relevant sentence in the item description is probably a copy-and-paste error, it looks ubu to me. In any case, it is neither mentioned on the Japanese page, nor in Mr. Tanobe’s sayagaki.

 

Bargain? I wonder why it's still for sale after more than 4 months on the website ... maybe because the -wara (-hara) of Fujiwara is missing ...?

[BIG]

Ok, no bargain.

 

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[BIG]

Tenpo era incident..

 

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201902230022.html

 

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[BIG]

Japanese emigration to Manchuria

 

http://www-brs.ub.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/netahtml/HSS/Diss/SchererAnke/diss.pdf

 

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[Bazza]

MEIN GOTT!!!   I let reading "Peter's Pages" slip for a while and I come back to a day or two's reading on its own!!!  Well, I tuned in because I have found a couple of interesting things and thought I may as well post them here:

 

1.  How Japan's ancient  trees could tell the future

         http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190205-does-the-climate-shape-social-change

 

2.  The survival of Japan's music rests on artificial ivory

         http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190403-the-survival-of-japans-music-rests-on-artificial-ivory

 

Regards,

BaZZa.

[BIG]

Yes thank you for the good readings. Everybody welcome to post his discoveries. Hard to manage your own discovery chanel..

 

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[BIG]

Traditional and Jazz..Sumie Kaneko

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6dDdH6hJXtc

 

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[BIG]

The Sword Of Japan..

 

http://www.swordofjapan.com/bio.html

 

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[b.hennick]

I have been recommending this book for years. It is published by the Lulu in both paperback and hard cover.

[BIG]

Culture and war pdf by Morgan Pitelka

 

http://krieger.jhu.edu/east-asian/wp-content/uploads/sites/63/2015/06/Morgan-Pitelka-Report.pdf

 

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[BIG]

Guns Scrolls And Swords..

 

http://exhibits.lib.byu.edu/guns-scrolls-swords/

 

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[BIG]

The president and sumo culture

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CU23QUYQdds

 

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[BIG]

Daimyo procession pdf by Constantine N. Vaporis

 

http://www.bakumatsu.ru/lib/Constantine_N._Vaporis_Lordly_Pageantry_The_Daimyo_Procession_and_Political_Authority.pdf

 

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[BIG]

Ninja Show

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mMqbZQl3Ddk

 

 

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[Ken-Hawaii]

Good Daimyo article - thanks.