"small Swords In Japan"

[Peter Bleed]

Dear Friends,

Given the lingering interest in Namban tsuba,my goal here is to post copies of an article I published a couple of years ago in "Man At Arms". For those who don't know about it, "Man at Arms" is a serious arms collectors' magazine that has a solid following - mainly among gun collectors. The magazine also seeks to speak to sword collectors so I felt a serious piece on a Japanese topic would be interesting to other arms collectors  - and good for Nippon-to collecting. With permission,  copies of the paper are attached.

Enjoy

Peter

[SAS]

Very nice article, well written and informative; thank you for sharing it, Peter.

[BIG]

Thanks for sharing Peter, would be a great pleasure having more older articles on the board.

 

Best Regards

[Brian]

I have quite a few Man at Arms mags. Great publication. Nice article Peter. Please see if you can edit and upload larger images of the 2nd and 5th page?

Thanks for sharing.

 

Brian

[vajo]

Very good article Peter. 

Thank you for sharing it.

 

(can't read page 2 and 5 like Brian sayed)

 

 

Chris

[Peter Bleed]

I apologize for the problems. It is nice to see that some people actually like to see the "words" sections as well as the pictures! I'll try solve the pages 2 and 5 problem. sorry!

Peter

[Brian]

Page 2 replaced. Awaiting a larger version of 5...

[christianmalterre]

Yepp!

 

it is seriously getting time for us "japanophiles" so to study the Nanban´s !

 

Really phantastic work, great! (partially really great iron if you do find the right one..)  to ben found herein, i just do say....

 

(somehow close to the Hizen,Echizen and latter Mino tradition smiths...not? !.....)

(sandiron as a base alone doesn´t rule this game of Shinto and Shin-Shinto times definitely....i would say... )

 

Christian

[nagamaki - Franco]

Hello Peter,

 

Thanks for posting, always helpful to raise one's attention to detail with more understanding.

[John A Stuart]

Larger 4 and 5 needed please. The small sword is my favourite after Nihonto. John