translation help please

[Bungo]

under the iron ground, what do those two kanji means ? ( from the right, second column, last two kanji , something about the carving, inlay )

 

mucha gracias, merci, arrigato, danke, thanks.............

 

milt the ronin

[Nobody]

It is "Katachi bori (容彫)". Though I do not know the proper term in English, maybe "carved with the motif in full?".

[Henry Wilson]

"Katachi bori: Carving or engraving in which the motif is shown in the round, or in full. Some menuki will have the head of an animal in katachi bori"

 

Nihonto Koza volume 6. AFU research

[Bungo]

thanks guys, it make sense now

 

milt the ronin

[Bungo]

another question........... which one is Kanzan and which one is Jittoku ?

 

milt the ronin

[Nobody]

another question........... which one is Kanzan and which one is Jittoku ?

 

milt the ronin

I heard that one with a scroll is Kanzan and the other one with a broom is Jittoku.

[Bungo]

thanks....................

how silly of me, that's what the title says all along.........." Kanzan gets the picture/scroll " menuki.

 

milt the ronin

[Henry Wilson]

Who were Kanzan and Jittoku?

[Nobody]

Who were Kanzan and Jittoku?

FYI; Kanzan Jittoku

http://www.aisf.or.jp/~jaanus/deta/k/kanzanjittoku.htm

[paulb]

I also read that these two eccentric gentlemen used to spend a lot of time together talking in a private language and laughing at each others comments. Passers by seeing two jolly hermits used to greet them only to be sworn at and cursed!

It sounded a bit like me and fellow collectors in the north so I adopted them as my local heros and decorated the walls of my sword room with the attached water colour