Edo Period sashimono manual (partial)

At the suggestion of a forum member who noted my interest in sashimono, I won an auction for a handwritten Edo period manual described as "military hata sashimono", some 60 pages in length. With the kind assistance of Markus Sesko, who assesed the manual to determine if it was worthy of translation, I've discovered it describes the sashimono / heraldry of the Kaga domain, with a few notes on the ancillary fief of Noto. The volume is marked "san" (參), the third volumn of an unknown number in the series.

As such, it's not worth translating, though quite interesting as a piece of history. Thus, I thought I would share the manual with forum members. I'll post a few pictures a week (so as not to overwhelm folk with 30+ images at once). I'll start today with the first six pages / page pairs. Note that I'm shooting these with an iPad, then rendering and minimizing them to work easily with forum software and your web browsers, so they will most certainly not be professional quality.

I hope members will find these intriging, as I did. Any Nihongo literate members who wish to translate/share any tidbits of interest for the membership should feel free to do so.

Very nice find !

What you could do is scan the booklet, make it into a PDF and upload it with Brian's help to the articles and reference part of this site.

KM

Excellent suggestion! Once I've posted all the photographs, I'll create a .pdf and have Brian upload it, for easy reference.

  kusunokimasahige said:

Very nice find !

 

What you could do is scan the booklet, make it into a PDF and upload it with Brian's help to the articles and reference part of this site.

 

KM

Happy to do that, pdf would be good. Thanks for sharing Randy.

Brian

Thanks Randy. The file has been uploaded to the articles section. Nice job.

Brian