Yanone anynone?

[Marius]

Dear All,

 

a friend-collector of mine has published a short article on yanone on my blog. While it is by no means a scholarly affair, it gives basic information about the types of Yanone and a few picures of his collection.

 

http://gomabashi.blogspot.com/

 

Maybe someone would be interested?

[Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini]

Nice reading, Mariuszk. Thanks for sharing.

[John A Stuart]

Good read. I take it that 'Głownie grotu' is an arrowhead? John

[Marius]

Good read. I take it that 'Głownie grotu' is an arrowhead? John

 

 

Yes, sorry for that, an error in my translation of this article, originally published on my Polish kodogu and nihonto blog. I have corrected this already.

[Bugyotsuji]

An informative article and some wonderful examples in the photos there!

 

Just a quick note on how the Japanese 'saw' arrows. Imagine them having flown and fallen into the ground all around you, like plants. The words to describe them then make sense. What we call an arrowhead, is to the Japanese a 'Ya-no-ne', or arrow-root. Alternatively for arrowhead you can say 'Ya-jiri' (jiri = shiri) ie the arrow-bottom/rear/butt. In this position they would also be in the quiver, butt down.

[sanjuro]

A good read Mariusz. I have owned a few yajiri over the years but have never seen an exhaustive collection depicted before. Most interesting.......... I shall view my own small few yajiri in quite a different light now.

[watsonmil]

Dear Mariuszk,

Thank you for the interesting article. I have a half dozen or so yanone, .... different styles. It is interesting to see as in all things Japanese, .... " arrowhead " will not suffice, ... has to be more specific, .... eg: Intestinal ripper : . Anyways off to label my yanone :D . .............. Ron Watson

[Aloof Pegasus]

Mariusz

 

Your friend's article was really interesting and the pix were great.

 

Philip