San Francisco Japanese sword show 2011

[estcrh]

Here are a few pictures from the show, if anyone has any others feel free to add them in.

 

There was a great samurai armor illustrator at the show, Brian Snoddy recently did the illustrations for Trevor Absolon's new book and he was doing an exhibition at the show at Trevor's table, his work is really amazing. Here is a few pictures and a link to his site, if anyone needs an illustration of armor, weapons etc for any reason he does really good work.

 

http://www.snellsoftware.com/briansnodd ... tions.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Thierry BERNARD]

amazing work

[Soshin]

I see in the first photo a poster for Ken's new book about WW2 Japanese Dirks. Having viewed some of his wonderful collection I sure the book is going to be a very good reference. Brian Snoddy's illustrations are wonderful of Japanese armor. Wish I could be there but their is always next year. Thanks for taking the time to post some photos of the show.

 

 

 

Yours truly,

David Stiles

[watsonmil]

Dear Eric,

Yes, ... echoing David's words of thank you !

... Ron Watson

[Toryu2020]

A terrific weekend!

Lots of great items and all the great old faces seemed to be there as well. Bob Haynes was doing tsuba appraisals and signing books, David Mcdonald was wrapping handles and you can the wonderful artwork that was taking shape at the Toraba table. The NTHK held a kantei and gave a presentation on Ko-mino fittings. While this has been the subject of past presentations there were some exciting editions this year including a rare Ko-mino kashira in the shape of a kabuto-gane.

 

The NBTHK display of the 16 generations of the Goto family was IMHO unrivalled by anything put on in Japan. Not only were the pieces spectacular individually the variety of items and themes blew holes in the notion that all the Goto did was make gold shishi and dragons. The detailed explanations by Robert Benson and Mike Yamazaki represented a master's course in the study of these amazing artists. This was likely the best display the NBTHK/AB has put on to date.

 

There seem to be lots of buying and selling, I heard many sellers say they had successful weekends and I cannot recall anyone saying they were disappointed. The registration staff reported 170 something walk-ins on Saturday, in addition to a number of 3 day passes sold on Friday, I think you can see from the photos hos busy it was.

 

Eric - these are some great shots, much better than my little camera could do. I have posted a few photos of things that caught my eye on my website; http://tinyurl.com/3zgfmvc

Please visit and feel free to post questions or feedback here...

-t

 

PS Best in Show goes to Andy Quirt's Oku Motohira

[Pete Klein]

Nah -- best in show goes to Thomas for being a great guy -- and really awesome with his board... five hangin dude LOL!

[ububob]

Wrong Pete! He's a short copy of Brain Wilson with an attitude.

 

...and thanks for introducing me to that new tool---the rice hatchet.