You can ring my bell.

[Spartancrest]

I just received a little tanto guard with a wind chime motif on it and noticed another still listed for auction. Has anyone seen this motif before and can anyone tell me the story or legend of the wind chime in Japan?

 

[Bugyotsuji]

Different fuurin and tanzaku from all over the country. Lots of photos from various districts.

https://www.jalan.net/news/article/551344/#:~:text=目と耳で「涼」をとる夏の風物詩&text=風鈴の魅力は、なんと,風物詩といわれています。

[Spartancrest]

Thanks Piers that is a very comprehensive link. From what I gathered, the wind chime could be seen as a place of sanctuary from evil influences.

 

[Stephen]

Ok thanks Dale that song is going to be todays earwick.🥴

[Stephen]

 

 

 

 

 

[roger dundas]

You are a wag Stephen- you spice up a few posts for the members. You make me smile anyway.

Roger j

[Spartancrest]

Stephen, there would have been a few members out there who had never even been born when that song came out. [1979] 

You are right though it is darn hard to get it out of your head once it is in there!  [and it's not a favourite either!] 

[Stephen]

And even fewer that spent time in Discos...lol

[Spartancrest]

Ding dong - https://www.jauce.com/auction/v1016196295

[Spartancrest]

I couldn't resist - https://www.jauce.com/auction/e1036065521

Big investment in a little bell - 1 yen! [Fees were 400 times the price!]

Do you think I can get a nakago-ana cut into that beetle?

 

[Spartancrest]

I should just up-date that fee structure  - make it 1,910 times the cost of the item! And that is before it gets shipped to me - [lucky the maths is easy on a 1 yen win!]

It does take the gloss off a 'win' though! [as I have said before, how much would it cost if I had lost?  ]