掛け矢乱杭 - A beautiful motif but whatever does it mean?

[Toryu2020]

Kakeya Rangui - having just seen a fantastic kozuka and menuki set with a design of "piled up mallets" I wonder if anyone has encountered this theme before and knows its significance? No luck for me so far in the usual references...

-t

[Ted Tenold]

Hey Tom,

 

Do they look like the Uchide no kozuchi belonging to Daikokuten? Perhaps a wish for fortune multiplied? Un-used or un-needed wishes? Sounds like a very interesting set. I've never seen this subject either.

[Stephen]

cut and pasted the Kanji, did a image google ....got rows of fence and teeth with braces....sorry i cant help

 

bable fish.....Applying arrow pickets

[Nobody]

Kakeya Rangui - having just seen a fantastic kozuka and menuki set with a design of "piled up mallets" ..........

Isn't the design "mallets and pickets"?

[Toryu2020]

Stephen,

"Rangui-ba" are crooked teeth. As I understand it a rangui is fence or defence like a thorn boma, sticks and what have you piled up to make a barrier. Thus crooked teeth look like a rangui.

 

Moriyama-san,

Yes mallets and stakes and triangles and fan shaped frames of some sort, I will try to post photos but this item is in the "hands of another". I checked several references including the Tsuba Gadai Jiten and have done a search in Japanese and like Stephen found that Rangui comes up, but the Kakeya (mallet) motif does not...

-t

[Nobody]

I thought that mallets were included in the design because they were necessary to drive the stakes into the ground.

[Toryu2020]

The image shows piles of mallets and stakes and fan shaped frames and triangles,

But I guess what I am really asking is why so many mallets? and where does the image come from?

Is this from some tale or is it a visual pun like 鎌○ぬ?

ートム