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On 5/30/2024 at 3:47 PM, Bruce Pennington said:

Wow, Okan, are those actual inserts holding the sides together, or are they painted on or inlay?

 

Sorry Bruce I just had the chance to remove and have a close look at the habaki. These are just gold inlays(decorative) I was hoping to find that it was holding a split or something :) 

 

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I drop the two images of a fantastic habaki over from https://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/49606-collecting-tsuba-seems-addictive-how-many-do-you-have-on-how-many-years/page/2/#comments   Dated 8/20/2024        [or as we non Americans would write 20/8/2024]

 

 

The habaki is a part of koshirae which comes with two opinions:

1. By "all-American old school shinsa of tsuba and tosogu": in suite mainline Goto, too unusual to be more specific, custom order.

2. By an "honorary Russian shinsa of crafts and blades": a combinations of pieces, all by different Goto makers. Only one piece he identified as early mainline Goto, the rest in his opinion are three (!) different generations of lesser skill.

 

 

 

 

t6.jpg  t5.jpg

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