Smaller blades thread

[Bugyotsuji]

Here’s a question for peeps. Picked this up at a local bricabrac in Japan. Wooden body. Is it supposed to be an ancient Japanese chokutō, Korean or what?

14 cm overall, fits across the palm of the hand, thumb base to pinky base.

 

 

 

 

[ROKUJURO]

Nice! Looks like a Chinese JIAN miniature to me, but I am no expert.

[Ed]

Just seeing this post.  I have a tiny little moroha tanto by Osafune Kiyomitsu. Approximately 3.5" nagasa and 5.5" overall.

 

 

[ROKUJURO]

Ed,

that one looks amazingly stout! Must be a kind of YOROI DOSHI! What is the thickness?

[Brian]

3.5" Nagasa?
Wow..that sounds like a true miniature, something I'm crazy about. Lovely little blade Ed.
Awesome.

[EdWolf]

Lovely blade Ed. 

[Shuko]

Ed

 

I am quite willing to be the caretaker of this lovely blade if you need help looking after it. Beautiful.

[Ed]

Thanks for the positive comments guys. Have no idea what the intended function of this tiny blade was.  I found this in Japan many years ago and brought it home. 

 

Jean, I don't remember the kasane right off. I would have to dig it out of the vault to measure it. Being Moroha zukuri I wouldn't think it was a yoroi doshi, but again I do not know for sure it's intended function.

[Bugyotsuji]

Found this in a drawer. A copper yataté (worn through the obi like a netsuké and sagémono set, which illustrates the first post of this thread.) “Now you see it, now you don’t!”

 

 

Opened for brush calligraphy or sumi-e painting. (Two kozuka examples shown)

 

 

And how they pack away. The small ‘Kozuka’ for cutting paper, etc.

See partition inside hollow tube.

 

 

 

 

[John C]

On 8/18/2024 at 7:38 AM, Bugyotsuji said:

A copper yataté

Interesting. I have a very similar design in my collection.

John C.