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  1. As you can all see...I am losing patience with this tosser. So from now on, for every new account he sets up (and there have been 3 or 4 the past 2 days that you guys probably didn't even see) I am going to start posting embarrassing pm's, posts and info about Adam Maunder. AKA Shan Maunder. This will include threats by him, legal nonsense, stupid registration slipups and lots of other things. So go ahead Adam! Try me. Btw, I am also looking for a UK based legal practitioner who can assist with filing a restraining order against him, and possibly laying official complaints of harassment against his ISP and having his internet shut down. I have all the screenshots and info ready, If he won't go away, then I'll MAKE him go away. I'll also post his eBay account (public info) and we can spread that around the internet a bit and see who still chooses to buy from that account.
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  2. Geraint, I would have really liked to have given him the benefit of the doubt. But I emailed him several times and all were ignored. It was only after waiting a month when I finally raised a Paypal claim for the full amount of £67 that he replied for the first time in the claim page, quoting problems with his emails. He even said he'd previously sent the entire order.... which I never received, and if it was indeed sent, why wasn't it sent signed for or tracked? After I raised the Paypal claim, he decided to send me £10 worth of my order items but strangely not the rest. I never heard from him again. The £10 worth of items were not sent tracked or signed for. Paypal decided the claim in my favour. There really didn't seem to be much concern on his part about letting me down.
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  3. Sorry. I mistaken the photo. This gave her another Saidam Mei sword. I enclose the correct photo Naokatsu 😃 Jiri
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  4. This thread WAS hard to find.... thought i'd add to it and bring it back to the top. Not the best pictures, but a really nice blade to hold in hand and look at. Ujifusa circa 1770
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  5. Here is my kozuka panel with fireflies
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  6. For a nice Japanese military display, there is nothing nicer than to have a collection of WW2 Japanese medals with the display. Japanese medals are arguably some of the most ornate and beautiful ever made, most of pure silver. Particularly if they are in their original presentation boxes, some have original papers. I have spent years finding the best examples, of campaigns, celebrating the Emperor, killed in action, wounded in action etc etc. When I have worked out a value, they will be in the for sale section. And free gifts with purchase thrown in as well.
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  7. That’s where l was going with this also, thanks John. I have an old iaito and the cosmetic hamon is wearing away at the monouchi.
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  8. To remove the rust.... obvious!!!
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  9. What JP said. Also it might just be from a tight saya scuffing that area as the sword is drawn out and put back in the scabbard. It might get more of that if it's used as an iato.
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  10. Do you mean the clearer steell line underneath the Hamon? If so, I have seen that already. In my opinion, it comes from two possible sources. Either someone tried to sharpen the blade after the polish with grinding stones (that’s the most dangerous solution as it might have changed the ha geometry) or it could simply be the result of the blade having been used to cut stuff. The jizuya is cosmetic, and if used for tameshigiri, it might fade where the blade was in contact regularly with the cut surface. If so, not a serious deal.
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  11. Yes, the paragraph is about the Ichijo disciples, and not specifically about Funada Ikkin, other than the one sentence mentioning he was the top student of Ichijo. As John says, the picture doesn't mention specifically which Funada Ikkin, but the text only mentions Yoshinaga so one can assume the tsuba pictures is a 1st gen Ikkin (aka Yoshinaga) tsuba.
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  12. Table of Content was added to my website www.studyingjapaneseswords.com Somebody made me realize the difficulty of finding articles without the Table of Content. Yurie
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  13. The link you provided above in post 11 more or less summed it up. I included that link in my post above and after the fact noticed that you had already referenced it so edited it out of my post. Great minds think alike! As an aside, the early swords from Suya were marked in English as "SUYA". I find that pretty hard to argue with! Below are three of the Type 95 companies and my translation for them. The 神戸 in 合名会社・神戸商店 can be translated as either Kanbe or Kōbe and my current opinion is Kōbe is the better of the two. This also happens to be the characters for the City of Kōbe and this caused much confusion amongst guntō collectors as it was thought the company was located in Kōbe City. It has only been in the last year that the company location was determined via an advertisement which gave Tōkyō as the location. It would probably be best to render the name as Kōbe? with a question mark immediately after. 飯島刀劍製作所 = Iijima Tōken Seisaku-jo = Iijima Sword Workshop. 関刀剣株式會社 = Seki Tōken KK = Seki Sword Co., Ltd. 株式會社・壽屋商店 = KK Suya Shōten = Suya Shop Co., Ltd.
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  14. Hi Moley, for at least 800 years since the initial publication of the Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga (鳥獣人物戯画, literally "Animal-person Caricatures”) four comic scrolls, the Japanese have been using anthropomorphic Toads, Mice, Rabbits, etc. illustrated in human activities (like wrestling) for humor. On Adam’s menuki, I think that I can see the Sumo Referee’s (a 3rd Toad’s) Gunbai (wooden war-fan used by the referee to signal the winner) in this case a leaf (I’ve circled the leaf on Adam’s menuki and the one in the famous Woodblock Print of Sumo Wrestling Toads below).
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  15. Aww, thanks guys! I recently saw the tsuba on sale and noticed it had the Funada Ikkin Kao of the 2nd gen so wanted to see what the book said. I think the book might be wrong or just assumed the first gen since the Kao on this tsuba looks like the 2nd gen.
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  16. I highly doubt he's a chef, just judging from the way he handles the sword. Chefs usually have a lot more respect for their blades than this guy. I know a few serious chefs and they treat their knives as the main tools to their livelihoods much as a samurai would treat their blade.
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  17. You and me both, Adam! Except I've never been to Japan myself. Would like to go someday.
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  18. Thanks Bruce i will fill it! These are the factories i know 1. Ashiya Shoten Co. Ltd. (Shinbashi, Shiba-ku, Tokio) Suya Shétten 2. Iijima Swordsman Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kanasugi, Shimoya-ku, Tokio) 3. Kobe Shoten (Katamachi, Yotsuya-ku,Tokio) 4. Sekidato Co. Ltd. (Sekimachi, Präfektur Gifu) e.g. Seki Téken Co. Ltd. 5. Kobe - (Kobe Shoten with ichi) i think a second fabrication ground in Kobe. Are these not correct? Its filled:
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  19. Auctions are frustrating. I checked an auction in Austria today and a waki-Goto kogai I bid on met my reserve of 1100 Euro No notice yet, did someone preceed me. Frustrating, for sure. John
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  20. Chris, Here's my list below. Couple of questions about your terms: "Ashiya" is that the Suya Shoten Co? I've never seen the name Ashiya.; The "Kobe" blades - are they the "K" in sakura? What are you going to call the "-" in sakura? Maybe "Ichi"? My list: Some steel fuchi have discernible stamps of the Seki Shoten Co. I've noted that, when able. The others, I just put "Steel" where there was no stamping visible. 13411 - Must be a typo. I think its the 134112 missing the "2". 2643 - Suya I $1,400 2016 BP USA 10506 - Gifu Sword Coop IV $900 2018 BP USA 92605 - Iijima II $600 2015 BP USA 44592 - Iijima II $? 2016 BP USA 113661 - Steel III $700 2015 BP USA 134112 - Steel IV $700 2017 BP USA 159557 - Iijima II $600 2019 BP USA 202446 - Seki Shoten Co V $700 2014 BP USA 204034 - Seki Shoten Co V Online
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  21. Hi Adam. Umm...err....Rich. Piss off. Get knotted. Sod off.
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  22. Yes... But... Why did you want it in the first place mate????? BaZZa.
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  23. The last quarter of the blade would point towards tameshigiri as this is the part that is in contact with the object to be cut. Moreover, I think the blade is in old polish, so that’s not very surprising.
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  24. George, this looks like a feature caused by polishing or indeed by incompetent 'sharpening'. Technically, there is no way to produce a YAKIBA like that. To say more, we should know details about the blade: type, age, HADA, a.s.o.
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  25. I think it's the first generation. A translation of the whole piece is a bit beyond me, but in the first line it has 船田一琴 (義長) 筆頭 Funada Ikkin (Yoshinaga) fudegashira, referring to Yoshinaga as head of the family/ first in line, and I can't see any reference in the piece to Yoshimori his son, the nidai, but no doubt you'll get some better information soon.
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  26. Sorry for the wrong wording and posting them upside down! Truly a beginner mistake that should not had happened. Since I could not edit the starting post any more please find attached the images now 180° turned.
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  27. Chris, You should transcribe the data in Fuller's charts. You can list "F &G" in the owner column with a citation at the bottom of the chart listing the book. Tomorrow I'll get the rest of my gunto data for you.
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  28. Vajo, The first two serial numbers are i think, owned by Shigezo from the Wehrmacht awards forum. Also, i don't see your list here.
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  29. All 5 NCO sword under my name in your database are not mine. I will try to find out the numbers of my Type 95's some how. The problem is , I stored my swords at my friend's place since I'm out of the country for a while.
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  30. Hi Howard, here an outline sketch of the two mentioned constructions: It comes from our symposium in Florence back in 2014. In the course of this specific lecture it was worked out, that the popular opinion regarding some design features must be corrected. But that's going too far now ... Concerning books, it depends on how deep you want to dive into the subject?! I can try to compile a brief list....
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  31. Thanks guys! WooHoo! First time I got a tough one (for me anyway) right!
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  32. Hi Brian, Please don't worry about it. I need all the feed back and the corrections. Especially the one like we are discussing about now. Unless somebody mention it, the misspelling "worriers" would stay for sometime. That is more embarrassing. I am working with my editor diligently. I am hoping I can publish the book maybe the early part of next year. Thank you. Yurie
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  33. Hi Yurie, Please keep up the fantastic work! I deleted the comments about the spelling. You do amazingly well, considering English is not your first language. Assisting with corrections I am sure is helpful, but there are better ways for our members to do that, and perhaps it does not come across as polite as it is intended. Thank you from all of us. I hope oneday this whole project will be published.
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  34. That’s a longer conversation, but suffice it to say that many swords are made to be used and the line between training tool and art is clear if you know where to look. Chinese and other production swords are simply not the same for a variety of reasons – especially in terms of feel – and it really does impact the training.
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  35. I think it is fun idea. Here is a 9 item collection (excluding the possible koshirae from the count) I came up with. In perfect world all items would of course be ubu. I think excluding the ōdachi and ubu naginata, the rest can be achieved fairly easily, and I left out any makers in order to make the basic format easy to see. And I am not personally yet too drawn into any specific makers, as there are so many interesting smiths and schools throughout the history. I realized it easily shows my preference of item types over specific schools. However I must say in reality I would probably cut the Muromachi trio for another earlier item but I included them to this fantasy format as I thought 9 items like this would give a nice view into different item types as well. Kamakura 1. Naginata 2. Tachi 3. Tantō Nanbokuchō 1. Naginata 2. Ōdachi 3. Ko-wakizashi Muromachi 1. Yari 2. Uchigatana (daishō koshirae) 3. Wakizashi (daishō koshirae)
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  36. I like a GUNTO with the uncommon "blackened" fittings. This one is on an equally uncommon shark-skin saya. The black is not a paint, but appears to be an oxidized silver plating. Even the Menuki are blackened. High class? Don't know, rare, YEP.
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