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  1. BIG
    Hi "new" museum, nice gallery... http://www.samuraimuseum.jp/photopage/index.html Best Regards
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    three techniques in a museum bulletin: https://www.rekihaku.ac.jp/english/outline/publication/ronbun/ronbun8/pdf/177005.pdf Best Regards
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    Here is nice tsuba showing the swordsmith Kokaji Munechika forging the famous Kogitsune Maru, ( little fox) https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22815/lot/160/ Best Regards
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    Last one... Whole blades http://www.w0w.co.jp/aikuchi/product.html Best Regards
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    More... Best Regards
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    http://en.rocketnews24.com/2015/03/25/i-katana-apple-designer-collaborates-with-traditional-craftsmen-to-create-Japanese-sword-set/ Best Regards
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    Traditional craftsmen and apple designer created aikuchi.... Best Regards
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    all good things...please tip HISTORY Best Regards
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    Sorry...http://gallery.kyohaku.go.jp/public/search_en.php Best Regards
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    Here are some letters from and to him... Best Regards
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    Hi Josh, good find. It is said that Naomasa committed suicide, did not stand the swordsmith pain ... Best Regards
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    Jade Tsuba

    BIG replied to BIG's topic in Tosogu

    Not so rare tsubas... http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/28621 Best Regards
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    and Chapter III third sentence... ...very effictive weapons more and more overshoed the men who used them... Best Regards
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    Eric, it's chapter II, right after quote number 38 about the french musketeers... Best Regards
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    Sorry, the translation...the Japanese had social problems with firearms... Best Regards
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    And an int Paul Varley pdf..with thoughts that without the guns there was no united Japan.. http://publications.nichibun.ac.jp/region/d/NSH/series/symp/2007-06-00/s001/s009/pdf/article.pdf Best Regards
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    Hi Eric, I have the german version from Klett-Cotta.. page 36 ... Hatten die Japaner mit den Feuerwaffen auch soziale Probleme. ... Also int. Die Produktion von Waffen in Japan, LIT Verlag, Harald Poecher Best Regards
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    Hi, Perrins thesis that the Japanese had social problems using ( owning ) tanegashima is not true. Many high ranked samurai had teppos and used tem, so the gun had no bad social prestige. PS like the perrin book Best Regards Pps it is said in an edo contest a bowman fired 13053 arrows in 24 hours; the gunmans coups were plenty...
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    Jade Tsuba

    BIG posted a topic in Tosogu

    While watching met treasures, find that Jade Tsuba.. http://metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/33387?sortBy=Relevance&what=Edged+weapons&ft=*&pg=2&rpp=20&pos=31 Best Regards
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    Hi, for those gents that did not watch... http://www.aoijapan.com/katana-bizen-koku-osafune-junin-samamosuke-sanemori-zo23th-nbthk-tokubetsu-juyo-paper Best Regards
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    Hi Joe, may be bungo morimune sue takada school. http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/19523-toshihide-kakko/ Best Regards
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    Good question Dave, after some 80 years would be nice to know about the products, the making and the to do/save of that leather covers! Need sayashi knowledge... Best Regards
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    And here is the katana... looks like a Darcy sword... https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/samurai-swords-and-armour-a-refined-art/a-rare-and-important-hizen-katana-sword-47/12131/ja Best Regards
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    Hi, by watching a " rare and importent " tadayoshi katana, saw this little video. http://www.christies.com/features/Samurai-making-of-sword-5267-3.aspx Best Regards
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    Hi, member Leo and Mike Prill, nihonto.eu ( Wiesbaden/Traben-Trabach) can do. Juwelier Strebel sells daisho in shirasaya, think he offers nice koshirae for 2500€. Check his site. Best Regards
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