BIG Posted March 8, 2019 Report Posted March 8, 2019 Machiyas in Kyoto.. https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/057411-005-A/in-der-welt-zuhause/ Best 1 Quote
vajo Posted March 8, 2019 Report Posted March 8, 2019 On 3/3/2019 at 7:30 PM, BIG said: Sword goes back to Japan https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7dEaxw_vY8M Best Photo providedA World War II Japanese samurai sword brought home as a wartime souvenir by a Minnesota solider turns out to be 400 years old. LE CENTER, Minn. – A Japanese samurai sword received for payment of construction work by a local contractor has turned out to be more than 400 years old and considered special in its home land. Jeff Traxler, who collects Word II and other military memorabilia, was given the sword long ago by his friend Jeff Fowler in return for doing construction work he needed done. Fowler’s late father served in the Pacific Theater in World War II and brought the sword home with him as a souvenir. It was displayed for decades in Traxler’s hunting preserve clubhouse. A year ago, Jeff Traxler’s son Sam and girlfriend Allie Trnka began researching the sword’s history, posting photos of it on a Reddit community forum. “We were looking for some translations because the sword smith’s name was on it and an address,” Sam said. A retired antique expert in Japan, Takashi Yano, contacted them, saying the sword appeared to be extraordinary. Yano, working with a team in Japan, did further research and traced it to Nichinan City, Japan, estimating a sword smith made it there around 1600. The original owner was a leader of the Ito Clan who lived in a Nichinan castle and whose clan ruled over a large part of southern Japan, Yano reported. Fowler is unsure how his father came about the sword. He likely was among U.S. soldiers who were allowed to take Japanese swords as wartime souvenirs from captured weapons before they were destroyed. Realizing its historic value, the Traxlers and Fowler began talking with their contacts in Japan about returning it to descendants of the original owner for display in the present castle’s museum. “It’s worth quite a bit, but we’re not interested in the money,” said Jeff Traxler. “We just want to return it.” And that’s exactly what Sam Traxler and his girlfriend will do later this month. Residents of Nichinan raised funds for the couple’s flight to Japan and accommodations for a 10-day stay, which will include a pageantry-filled ceremony reuniting the samurai sword with its town of origin.“We’re pretty excited about returning it to where it should be,” said Sam. “They have time set up to prep us for the ceremony and the costume and makeup.”The Minnesota couple is also working on a website dedicated to the sword’s return, its history and any future details regarding the samurai scimitar. “We’re pretty excited about returning it to where it should be,” Sam said. “It’s super rare and was thought to be lost.” It would be interesting to see what sword is talking about. 2 Quote
BIG Posted March 12, 2019 Report Posted March 12, 2019 Visiting a master polisher http://japatoricans.blogspot.com/2017_12_06_archive.html Best 1 Quote
BIG Posted March 12, 2019 Report Posted March 12, 2019 Sold auction Katana swords.. http://www.youvalyou.com/Guns-and-arms-auction-price-results-x-Katana.aspx Best 1 Quote
BIG Posted March 17, 2019 Report Posted March 17, 2019 The art of killing Swordmanship in medieval Japan https://content.ucpress.edu/chapters/12869.ch01.pdf Best 5 Quote
Guest Rayhan Posted March 17, 2019 Report Posted March 17, 2019 On 3/5/2019 at 3:59 PM, BIG said: Unju Toshitane katana,with Honjo family crest on the nakago.. https://www.touken-matsumoto.jp/eng/product_details_e.php?prod_no=KA-0240 Best The Ji in this sword is flawless (to my eyes anyway)! Quote
BIG Posted March 19, 2019 Report Posted March 19, 2019 Kunst des Meserfechtens Pdf by Joeli Takala https://www.arsensis.hu/pdf/FS_JT.pdf Best 1 Quote
BIG Posted March 19, 2019 Report Posted March 19, 2019 Munich, Munich, Munich.. here is the chance to meet the 7th Soke of the Hokushin-Ittō-Ryū.. https://www.kunsthalle-muc.de/fuehrungen/fuehrungen-und-samurai-seminare/ Best 1 Quote
TETSUGENDO Posted March 19, 2019 Report Posted March 19, 2019 Peter, "Kunst des Messerfechtens" is fascinating reading, the history and development of a weapon that features in so many important masterworks of 15th/16th C. art is something I never expected to find here. Being very familiar with these works this weapon was familiar to me, but I was unaware of its history and development......no longer, thank you! -S- p.s.- You never fail to surprise. Quote
BIG Posted March 19, 2019 Report Posted March 19, 2019 Thanks Steven, my heading was wrong..Right term is Messerfechten. Best 1 Quote
TETSUGENDO Posted March 19, 2019 Report Posted March 19, 2019 Danke Peter, Your correct, of course, my mistake as well, hope some of the others here will read it......well worth the time! Cheers, -S- p.s.-as it should be now,edited. Quote
BIG Posted March 20, 2019 Report Posted March 20, 2019 Travel with the met https://www.metmuseum.org/-/media/files/join-and-give/travel-with-the-met/2019/Japan-may-30.pdf Best 1 Quote
BIG Posted March 21, 2019 Report Posted March 21, 2019 Article by John Byck about the Morris collection and the New York collecting history.. http://network.icom.museum/fileadmin/user_upload/minisites/icomam/Magazine/July_2018.pdf Best 1 Quote
BIG Posted March 21, 2019 Report Posted March 21, 2019 Might be interesting... All magazines, click on the cover to open pdf's http://network.icom.museum/icomam/publications/the-magazine/ Best 1 Quote
BIG Posted March 23, 2019 Report Posted March 23, 2019 Kasuga shrine exhibition.. http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201902220001.html Best Quote
BIG Posted March 27, 2019 Report Posted March 27, 2019 And the winner is.. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M7-ERVNXcH4 Best Quote
BIG Posted March 27, 2019 Report Posted March 27, 2019 Manjiro Nakahama story.. http://millicentlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/SwordBooklet-1982.pdf Best 3 Quote
BIG Posted March 28, 2019 Report Posted March 28, 2019 Read what wiki knows about Manjiro.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakahama_Manjirō Best 1 Quote
TETSUGENDO Posted March 28, 2019 Report Posted March 28, 2019 On 3/27/2019 at 7:59 PM, BIG said: Manjiro Nakahama story.. http://millicentlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/SwordBooklet-1982.pdf Best On 3/28/2019 at 10:53 AM, BIG said: Read what wiki knows about Manjiro.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakahama_Manjirō Best Great Story....must read! -S- Quote
BIG Posted March 29, 2019 Report Posted March 29, 2019 Exhibition Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo.. https://www.keioplaza.com/offers/swords.html Best 1 Quote
BIG Posted March 29, 2019 Report Posted March 29, 2019 Castle's new representative.. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/08/national/cat-lord-floating-castle-okayama-boosts-tourism-west-Japan-rain-disaster/#.XJ34f-vGKK0 Best 1 Quote
BIG Posted March 29, 2019 Report Posted March 29, 2019 April first Monday Japan's new era name revealed.. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/29/national/name-japans-new-era-revealed-1130-m-monday-abe-statement-due-12/#.XJ4eCevGKrU Best My tip: KAEI 1 Quote
BIG Posted April 1, 2019 Report Posted April 1, 2019 April First.. The only child to save the world itsself... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sVeYOPJZ8oc Best Quote
BIG Posted April 5, 2019 Report Posted April 5, 2019 Farewell letter.. http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/06/i-shall-be-waiting-for-you.html Best 2 Quote
BIG Posted April 5, 2019 Report Posted April 5, 2019 After the "kinderkreuzzug" now Jordan Peterson at the cambridge union.. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pBbvehbomrY Best Quote
BIG Posted April 6, 2019 Report Posted April 6, 2019 Back from the dead.. National Geographic you tube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D7Dz-jAOJHQ Best 1 Quote
raynor Posted April 6, 2019 Report Posted April 6, 2019 Peter, you are a master of sifting trough the majority of, well, crap found online and finding entertaining, educational content. Thank you! 4 Quote
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