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Good question. Apologies, adhere probably wasn't the best word here . To answer your question: yes, that's how I understood it. In the scenario where bohi extends through the nakago, the nakago-ana on the seppa needed to mimic that profile, including the bohi. What spurred my question, was watching the amount of precision and effort it took for him to get it to fit "just right", and I imagined a bo-hi in that area would only make it more challenging. Hope that makes more sense, All the best, -Sam

@Jussi Ekholm another piece to list. First of Hisanobu tanto with tokuho. Tsunagi is great here.

Hey Sam, when you asked Brian that question, what did you mean by adhere? Were you asking if the sepia needed to be shaped to where they would extend into the hi?

Thank you folks, that's helpful. I had seen some seppa that had seemed to follow the bohi, but I did not know it was supposed to be like that. Most of what I had seen was probably mass produced.

This sekigane and the copper insert on the kogai-hitsu-ana were made and installed by me about 15 years ago so please don't think it's an antique addition.(Not directed at you, Dale, just in general.) I was selling the piece and the buyer wanted to install it on a sword he had so I added it so it would be closer to the dimension of his nakago. I figured it was a better way to do it than the buyer using a punch on the actual tsuba.

Price lowered to 2750 euro

These two examples from a thread in 2020 Half full sekigane https://varshavskycollection.com/collection/tsu-0297/

Another seminal document from Hoshi and Sesko. Looking forward to the next instalments.

Iron tsuba, Man on the boat, Pine tree, Bamboo, Reeds. Gold, silver, copper inlays. Dimensions: 64,2 x 55,6 x 3,5 ( mimi: 4,6 mm). T981932 $249,- my full offer: https://www.flickr.com/photos/artur_drogamiecza/albums/ my social media:
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Very nice write-up, cheers.

Hello all, I wanted to share (what I would guess is) a rare occurrence when it comes to sekigane, one piece that is wrapped around the entire inner part of the nakago-ana. A bit of research makes be believe this is called 全周責金 zenshū sekigane. Does that sound right? Do others have examples of this? I am guessing this is just a more "high-class" way of refitting the tsuba, no? Damon

Thanks a lot mecox!

Wow, thats great info, thank you mecox.

I can hardly wait for this file to be released. Like all the others by M. Cox, I'm sure it will be very good.

About half way through so far and it's a wonderful read just like the last article. Thanks Hoshi!

Here are some pictures of the tsuka and tsuba, as well as the fittings

Ah, I suppose I had the incorrect character. Thank you

That's an incredibly detailed, comprehensive, well written and well presented article. Well done, well worth saving.

則光

Excellent article with great pictures, must have taken a lot of time and effort to create it

I replied previously on this one. 則光 = Norimitsu.

Hi! This is 則光/Norimitsu.

As far as I can tell the marks are "川" or "州" and "光", but it looks like there could be a part under the first kanji so... Idk, any ideas? Someone said it could be 法光 or Norimitsu, but I'm not sure.

Can't imagine how long it took to create this; it's excellent. As a professional I am jealous of some of that photography, from what I believe is Yuhindo; basically perfection.