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Hello all, quick introduction for a new member located in Sydney Australia. Fourty years young. After reading a fiction work named Shogun by James Clavell in my late teens and fell in love with all th

marionette
marionette

Hello everyone, just realized I forgot to post an introduction here! My name is Christian (you can call me Chris ). I currently reside in New Haven Connecticut.  I was introduced into Nihonto through

palousian
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Hello, everyone.    I am an aikidoka (30 years of training, thus far), and I am here because serious interest in nihonto has sort-of crept up on me in the last ten years.  For twenty years,

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Mathieu Rookie

Mathieu

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Hello all of you,

 

I'm a young french collector of 22 years old and one more enthousiastic rookie in the Nihonto's world!

Instead of my passionfor the Asian culture and Japan, I read what I was able to found on the subject and quickly focus myself on shingunto and kaigunto katana. Thank to the web database I'm able to make the difference between original and most fake, that's why I buy a NCO sword 2 years ago and last year my first shingunto.

 

I was very reluctant about remove the tsuka, mekugi was tight and I was effraid to broke the rayskin. But curiosity won and with good advice and the right tools it was easy to take picture of the Mei. With the help of fellows WAF members I was told the name of the smith and a precious link to your forum to learn more about him and the blade. Blades would be better because I have read a lot of topics since I'm here and my understanding is growing up day after day. I'll be glad to share it with you.

 

Sorry for my english and mistakes.

Best regards,

Mathieu.

Mathieu Rookie

Mathieu

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I've several friends in Paris, nice to meet you, maybe you could tell me if there are good nihonto related event? Tampa show make me jealous! :glee:

 

Thank you, music and film in their original language are my best friends, add a few trips in England and the clever teaching of some professors and here I'am!

 

I forgot to said that I'm also collecting vinyle, old disc of almost all kind of music, so if somebody share this hobby with me or only want to trade some of this bulky things I'll be glad to speak with you.

 

Back to blades now!

O koumori Community Regular

O koumori

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Hello,

Although I have been reading the Board messages for a while, I've now "officially"

joined. I've been studying Nihonto for 4 or 5 years, and am therefore a beginner.

I currently live in NW Arkansas. I hope to learn much through interaction...

Dan

watsonmil Mentor

watsonmil

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Hello Dan, ......... and welcome. I am an old time collector, but also new to the forum. It can be a most humbling but learning experience. There are many knowledgeable people on this site. It can and still is to me at least a bit intimidating. Regards, ... Ron Watson

MrJones Apprentice

MrJones

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Greetings and salutations! I work for a small museum in the UK, and spend most of my time variously lazing around and studying (albeit a little less rigorously than I once did) the Imperial Japanese Navy. Learning about the IJN led me to reckon I should learn about Japan too, and that just added to the fascination Nihonto hold for any student of military history, and its techniques and technologies.

 

A mere 22-year-old sprat, me, so I look forward to learning here and generally doing what I do best - finding out about really interesting things!

MrJones Apprentice

MrJones

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Thanks! I might, you never know... but then again, I hardly know anyone up here! I moved to this city (York) a couple of months ago, and it's taken that long just to get to know my housemates. Of course, the fact I spend my post-work nights slobbing in front of the PC (and reading lots and lots of history) doesn't help that.

 

Anyway, I'm now going to demonstrate my magnificent ignorance: shinsa?

Basho12 Enthusiast

Basho12

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Hi, All. Another beginner here. I've been interested in Japanese swords for years but not in any organized fashion until the past few months. I recently acquired a project wakizashi (yes, I know, but I did want to learn from the ground up). I'm recreating an appropriate koshirae for it now. I received a blade and a beat-up saya, and pretty much everything else was missing, including the habaki and the horn fittings for the saya. Fabricating the missing parts has been a learning experience all in itself. I know I have a long way to go and I look forward to learning from everyone here.

Mathieu Rookie

Mathieu

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Dan > That's fine, I've progress to do in english, this board is a good exercise ;)

 

Welcome to you M. Jones, your shingunto have a great story!

 

Welcome Richard and good luck for your project.

 

Best regards,

Mathieu.

Dakota Apprentice

Dakota

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Hi Everybody,

 

My interest in Nihonto is very recent. I've always kept weapons away from me, out there somewhere. Also have interest in Shakuhachi as worn by Samurai's. I don't have much to say but want to learn quick. I do have a natural uncanny ability to recognize a good blade though. Is there room for off-topic discussions on blades from China or possibly knives from the Hindu Kush???

Brian

Brian

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HIs there room for off-topic discussions on blades from China or possibly knives from the Hindu Kush???

Hi, and welcome. Sorry to say we do keep on topic here, and don't allow too much leeway. But there are good forums out there for the Chinese and other weapons. I am sure links will be posted soon. Hope you enjoy the Japanese related discussions here though.

 

Regards,

Brian

Nautilus Rookie

Nautilus

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Yet another new-boy here.

 

Like many in my generation, I became infatuated with the katana after watching Shogun - yes, I know. However, thanks to my Uncle and a few like-minded friends, this youthful passion became more directed after University and my first stay in Japan. My Fiance's Father adopted me as the Kai's 'Token Gaijin' (and To-Ken Gaijin, Snarf!) and over the years I've not done too much to disgrace my fellows in the quiet little place.

 

I collect purely from a practical perspective - following my dotty old Master's belief that a sword on a stand, garnering nothing but admiring glances is (usually, *wink*) a waste of iron (there are times I wonder why he has not been arrested for carving someone up; but then again, he also teaches the local chief of police) - and tend to find focus on good, stout Gendaito (Perhaps it is the Yorkshireman in me creeping out, with his preference for plain, workmanlike stuff).

 

Frankly, I don't think I'd know real artistry if it jumped up and bit me on the rump. :)

 

Darren.

Nautilus Rookie

Nautilus

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Darren

:welcome:

you'll find more than a few mates from your homeland here, have already found your two post very enjoyable and respect your Sensei teachings with a smile.

 

He's a card to be sure. Treated me like something he'd find on his shoe at first - but I cannot be sure that was because I handled swords like they were some sort of Warhammer 40K chain axe or because I had the temerity to like his daughter. Still, in that traditionally Japanese way, once he and the company had opened up it was like I had been there forever.

 

Its more the fellowship than the tuition which I prize perhaps, and that is why I aim to go to my grave the eternal student. The Master once commented to me (after watching yet another botched cut): "Assuming I survive the next few years of you treating my swords like hatchets, you might have improved enough to actually start learning something of value before I die of old age".

 

Well, he's not died yet (and I have not yet even damaged a single blade), but I'm not sure what I have actually learned.

 

Thanks for the welcome chaps, I'll try not to make a nuisance of myself - but, as they say, you can't take a Sheffielder anywhere. ;)

Roarke Newbie

Roarke

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Hello,

 

I forget to introduce myself.. My name is Marek and I live in Czech rep. After my honeymoon in Japan, I began to practice TSKSR and I love it.. I hope, that I'll continue to study it until I'll be able to hold bokken in my hands.. At this times, I'm browsing forums, reading books and trying to learn something about samurai swords..

 

So this is my way.. ;)

 

Marek R.

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