samurai photo needed

[Ford Hallam]

As some of you may know I'm involved in the making of a film that will document the making of a kinko tsuba. As one of the versions of the film will be for a general audience, not you knowledgeable fellows , we need to include a certain amount of background information. I need to show what tsuba were and how they were worn. So what I'm looking for is a period photograph, preferably a full figure, of a samurai wearing a daisho and where the tsuba are visible.

 

If anyone has anything like that and if they'd be prepared to allow me to use a copy in the film I'd be very grateful if they would pm me. I've got photos in books but they are simply too grainy when we blow them up to a usable size...Just thought a period photo, or something that looked like a period photo, would be more interesting.

 

Thanks for reading,

 

regards,

 

Ford

[Baka Gaijin]

Good Afternoon Ford,

 

Here are a few possibles:

 

http://www.old-Japan.co.uk/

 

http://oldphoto.lb.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/unive/

 

http://www.gettyimages.com/Creative?country=usa

 

(Getty Images are geared up for media usage, and have some amazing 19th Century archives).

 

Best regards

 

Malcolm

[Bugyotsuji]

Or Nobody's cameo pic from yesterday in this week's Edo Period Corner

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[Lorenzo]

Use Felice Beato pictures.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felice_Beato

 

http://images.google.it/images?q=Felice ... =it&tab=wi

[Ford Hallam]

thanks for the feedback Gents, much appreciated