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Japanese Hand Cannon. Please Help With Translation?


JPGH

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Hi Piers,

 

I don't have the book and cannot post a better photo.

 

While researching the hand-cannon found within that 1907 catalog, I came across this internet image/page from Sawada Taira book and realized I had the same weapon displayed, but missing its firing lever. 

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The one you have there I have seen other examples of, and it was a genuine (if somewhat underhand to the popular mind) weapon of the late Edo and Bakumatsu period. Missing any mechanism like that would have meant no need for registration in Japan, and ease of export.

 

I can just read your photo but with squinting and extra effort. If you can wait a couple of weeks I will be reunited with the book. Or if Jan could send a photo from his copy of the book... ? :beer:

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