Hi all, read in an old tsuba article that only "two arts" did not come from china. Any idea about the two Japanese arts?
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PS please share your thoughts.. will open the Rätsel at sunday.
We had a Mino wakizashi, yamato base with soshu elements in nioi-deki in our last meeting. Whitish steel resulted from fine ji-nie, so maybe it's a Mino blade.
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Buddhist monks as healers
https://www.gko.uni-leipzig.de/fileadmin/user_upload/religionswissenschaft/Kleine__-__Buddhist_Monks_as_Healers_in_Early_and_Medieval_Japan__Z__01.pdf
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Heavy rain in Tokyo...
https://soranews24.com/2019/10/22/heavy-rain-falls-in-tokyo-on-day-emperor-is-presented-with-sword-of-heavenly-gathering-clouds/
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