Inscription on arrow,Any idea?

[Lindus]

After contact from a member about an arrow I found this one long forgotten,has a small inscription, cannot make sense of it at all, any ideas out there.

 

Thanks

 

Roy

[george trotter]

Looks like katakana for NO RI SA SU...don't feel confident about "SA".

Regards,

George.

[IanB]

Roy, Could be Noriyasu. I've a few arrow heads with signatures in katakana that are just too small to really read.

Ian Bottomley

[Lindus]

Is this any better?. arent old flat bed scanners the bee's knee's................

 

Roy

[george trotter]

Roy, I think Ian has got it...Noriyasu.

Cheers,

Geo.

[Lindus]

Thats great chaps, how could one own an item for so long and not notice it was signed .

 

Next thing is to try and find out what age and where, have spent some time on the web but cannot even find similar let alone what smiths made them.

 

Once again gentlemen, thanks for your time and trouble

 

Roy

 

http://www.collectorsloot.homestead.com

[Brian]

Roy,

When and where is usually not all that important in yanone..especially since I think many were signed like kogatana...ie not by the real smith. Also, I think many signatures were mini factories churning them out. Although my signed ones are not of this "rope cutter" design....they are often signed in katakana and this makes me think they weren't really a smith's name. I have one with the katakana and also a kanji name on it..reading differently.

http://www.arco-iris.com/George/yanone.htm - They get quite fancy occasionally

 

Brian

[IanB]

Roy, I doubt you will ever find anything about your arrowhead. As Brian has said, they were more or less mass produced. Yours is a kurimata, likened to a skein of geese. The idea that they were for cutting the rigging of ships, or the cords of armour, is of course nonsense. The real reason for their use was that the spreading points widen the potential to hit what is shot at. Since just about all arrows rotate in flight, not even the best Zen archer could not only achieve the correct aim but also ensure the head was a right angles to a rope by the time they met. Stll its a good tale.

Ian Bottomley

[Lindus]

Brian & Ian

 

This site and its people just get better, thanks again.

 

Think that has put this one to bed.

 

Regards

 

Roy