COMING BACK TO NIHONTOMESSAGEBOARD

[PAOLA]

A Big Hello to everibody - My name is Paola Marinangeli, from Italy and after a period of absence, from this extremely interesting forum, I have registered again (having forgot my firm username .....) coming back to visit frequently the forum and learning a lot from ''expertise'' and postings

 

A nice day to all and since today is Friday, a very good week end!

 

Paola

[Brian]

 

Good to have you here. What are your main Nihonto interests, and how is the collecting going in Italy?

 

Regards,

Brian

[PAOLA]

 

Good to have you here. What are your main Nihonto interests, and how is the collecting going in Italy?

 

Regards,

Brian

 

Thanks Brian for the welcome message. My main intersts are TSUBA,

Fuchi-Kashira and Menuki and my little collection (around 40 pieces) is composed by these items, mainly TSUBA. I have started in collecting them around 20 years ago, being interested in Japanese Culture in all the different field of ancient art, I knew about TSUBA but never thought to collect them.....one day I was really captured by a Sukashi Tsuba displayed together with other Japanese items, inside a little Antiques shop and .......that was a love at first sight!

I have not a particular criteria in chosing a piece....it depends if it is able to give me an emotion and if there is elegance and harmony in the piece; I like Tsuba and swords fittings because in such a limited space....Japanese artists and craftmen were abe to tell a story....to express an ideal thorugh the complex but fascinating Japanese symbolism, and this is something that never stop to fascinated me. When I have started my collection Tsubas were not so much popular in Italy and I was probably the only woman to collect them...now there is a wider knowledge of Japanese Culture and Arts but in any case there are not, here, so many collectors of NIHONTO and related items

 

Paola