Solid Gold Menuki

[Ed]

Ford,

While having been told that in the past, I was never able to find anyone with the credentials to substantiate the claim that kin-sabi was an indicator of "solid" gold or greater age.

 

Thank you for the input, for all of your input.  It is greatly appreciated.

[Ford Hallam]

Cheers Ed   , my book, which has morphed into an encyclopedia, will hopefully provide a reasonably reliable introduction to metals and alloys as used in Japan in the past.

[Heringsdorf]

Hello Ford,

Is your book out?

[Ron STL]

As was said earlier, an amazing number of gold menuki have surfaced here. While not my most important set (that being "round dragons" by Goto Tokujo) this daisho set depicting dragonfly are certainly favorites of mine. Hozon to Kyo kinko which would put them as late Edo. I couldn't resist them when seeing them on Nihonto.com (Fred Weissberg) and finally in-hand. Ron STL