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  1. Jacques
    Why? I'm not materialistic, nor am I interested in money. Once I've studied one sword, it no longer interests me; i study another one, and so on. I'm lucky enough to have the memory of an elephant, which enables me to remember the essential characteristics of the swords I've studied. In fact, there are only 300 smiths I'm interested in: jo, jo-jo and sai-jo saku.
  2. Jacques
    Ok thanks Jussy.
  3. Jacques
    Jussi https://kunishitei.bunka.go.jp/heritage/detail/201/6524 It's not the same; the one i shared has a 74.2 nagasa and a 0.9 cm sori
  4. Jacques
    A few hundred.
  5. Jacques
    Except that I never mentioned nagamaki... You're putting words in his mouth I'll give you an indice : fukura.
  6. Jacques
    How can you say he can reconfigure the shinogi if you don't know how? It's like saying there are green giraffes but I've never seen one....
  7. Jacques
    And how does he do it?
  8. Jacques
    I'm not a collector, I'm only interested in knowledge.
  9. Jacques
    Thanks, just goes to show that you should always check whether what you read or are told is relevant or not.
  10. Jacques
    That's because you haven't understood it, even though it's very clear.
  11. Jacques
    That's bother me, it's named as tachi and it has a typical naginata naoshi sugata. If Jussy could check ?
  12. Jacques
    Yes, but they're talking about nakago. A naginata can be made in the naginata naoshi style, as Kanzan Sato says in his article. Once again, nothing can prove the contrary
  13. Jacques
    It's impossible to know. It would have to be documented (the same naginata before and after) by the craftsman who did the work. A kissaki is not like a nakago, where there are clues showing that it has been suriage. The mune is polished and burnished, with no trace of alteration. A true naginata naoshi Description says the nakago is suriage.
  14. Jacques
    The problem is that the term naginata naoshi includes both real naginata naoshi and those made in style (see Kanzan Sato's article).
  15. Jacques
    Michael stop nonsenses please Den Choji description....
  16. Jacques
    There's a misunderstanding of the term naoshi, which refers only to kissaki; for nakago it's suriage. In fact, for a tachi, we should say: nakago suriage and machi-okuri, and for a naginata: naoshi and suriage, but the Japanese love shortcuts.
  17. Jacques
    Shinto = off topic
  18. Jacques
    No, you have tot start from the mune machi and you need a decreasing mihaba.
  19. Jacques
    The question that needs to be asked, and that few are asking, is this: How can we tell that a naginata has had a naoshi? Absolutely nothing, except a boshi identical to hamon and yakitsume.
  20. Jacques
    Naginata naoshi zukuri, so what ? A katana made in this style will be designated as naginata naoshi zukuri Just a point of clarification: no one can know how the naginata was like before the naoshi, and all the existing examples of ubu naginata show that the kaeri would disappear if one were practised. I'm basing myself on facts and nothing else. The examples you show are in no way proof.
  21. Jacques
    Still no physically acceptable explanation Token-bijutsu automn 1981
  22. Jacques
    I don't know if you understood me correctly (with my bad English it's possible). Once again, there are real naginata naoshi = naginata that have been transformed and swords made like naginata naoshi (but that have never been transformed), the latter with a kaeri. A true naginata naoshi. Note that it was during the Nanbokucho period that swords began to be forged in the Naginata naoshi style.
  23. Jacques
    It still doesn't prove anything, I'm still waiting to see a naginata that could keep a kaeri once the naoshi has been practiced. I have the flaw of basing myself on facts, not blabla.
  24. Jacques
    So what ? Is it a proof it is a real naginata naoshi ? No. I noticed that on the shijo kantei NBTHK mentions naginata naoshi only (boshi are yakitsume) if it's a waki, waki is added. which makes me think (until proven otherwise) that on the papers (hozon etc) NBTHK encompasses both real naoshi and those made in the style just as they don't differentiate between generations of blacksmiths.
  25. Jacques
    Have you ever imagined what this naginata looked like before transformation? What level the boshi was at? It must not have been very aesthetic.
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