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Found another image of a tanegashima on a carriage. http://tinyurl.com/d5xcmt5

Bruno, here is a link to a post with the best information I know of on tachi and funbari. viewtopic.php?f=1&t=11152

How about a picture of the whole tanto including the blade to see it it even Japanese.

David any pictures?

Piers, thanks for risking arrest and taking that second picture of the tanegashima ammo. Here is one that is not as complete from Fred Weissburg who happens to have a couple of tanegashima for sale. http://www.nihonto.com/itemsalemisc.html

Once again, something I have never seen, I had read about some flintlocks being brought to Japan at one time but they did not catch on. It seems that the Japanese did like one aspect of this type of ignition, great information!

Thanks Piers, there does not seem be any set design for these types of small cannon.

Very interesting Piers, 1000 mon!!! By hiya-zutsu can I assume Mr Tokoro meant that this type would be for firing bo-hiya? I have heard the term "taihon" being used as a term for bo-hiya mortar, is this any were near correct?

Any historical precedence for this type of O-zutsu?

This Ebay auction is over but looking at the price this "sword" sold for makes me wonder why some of the really nice reasonably priced swords being sold on this forum do not get snapped up more quickly. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 114wt_1176

Piers, that display showing the various bullet sizes is a great visual reference, do you know the sizes of the smallest and largest ones?

Jan, thanks for the picture, that is a rare site, seeing the arrows wrapped with a cord to hold them in.

Jan, I cant help with the crest, but I have seen these types of quivers being called "shiko", do you have any more images, it looks interesting. http://anthromuseum.missouri.edu/grayso ... uiver.shtm

Except for the fact that he owned slaves and raped them and enslaved the children that were produced. What a wonderful man he was indeed, the Constitution he worked so hard on was only meant for white men, there were plenty of men back then with a much better moral compass to admire. http://www.uwec.edu/geography/ivogeler/w188/jeff.htm

Trevor's first 2 books are the ultimate for learning about samurai armor, the third book has not come out yet. If you purchase and absorb the information in them you will not regret the purchase. Neither book is that expensive and Trevor has taken many detailed images from armors he owned or had access to and he has added detailed information that is not available in any other place that I know of. He has included glossaries of all the individual parts, reading his books are like taking a course in samurai armor. I purchased several copies of his first book, 2 copies of his second and am prepaid for 2 copies of his third. You can contact him at this email address. trevor@toraba.comIan Bottomley's book and Clive Sinclaire's book are also must have books that will help give you a good understanding of the history of samurai armor and weapons, well worth the price. Links to discussions on Trevor's books. viewtopic.php?f=9&t=10731&p=91164&hilit=trevor#p91164 viewtopic.php?f=9&t=11763&p=100599&hilit=trevor#p100599 Here is a link to all the samurai armor images on Wiki commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categ ... rai_armour Here is a link to a template that contains all the samurai armor, weapons and equipment articles on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Japanese_(samurai)_weapons,_armour_and_equipment

Here is an item that is described as being an Edo period iron for ironing cloth and clothes, I have thought about how clothing from that period could look so neat and wrinkle free but I have never read how this was done. Supposedly this little pan was filled with sand and then hot coals were then put on top of the sand, the bottom of the pan would then be used to iron clothing. Seems reasonable to me. If true then these must have been quite common at one time.

John, some type of oak seems to be used on the old Japanese wooden weapons I have seen, here is another old bokken, this one has a thick wood tsuba. Compared to the bokken from this post

Ian, it sold for 102,670 yen...

Once again thank you Morita san, the detailed description is interesting.

Ian, good call, I did not think of that. Im trying to gather images of real ones but cant quite figure this one out, I was hoping the writing on the box might provide a clue.

Ian, I have not seen that kind of decoration on a gunbai before.

I was wondering if anyone here could tell if what is listed on the lid of the box matches the item inside, thanks.

I am moving the tosogu images to a new category:Tosogu (Japanese sword fittings) in the Walters Art Museum, they should be easier for people to find than in a Japanese armor category. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tosogu_(Japanese_sword_fittings)_in_the_Walters_Art_Museum

A slight mistake, there are 3,229 images in the category which is badly named (Japanese Armour in the Walters Art Museum) since there are only a couple of armor images, some really incredible images in the batch.

I just found these several hundred pictures of sword fittings on Wiki commons, I do not know if they have been posted here before. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tosogu_(Japanese_sword_fittings)_in_the_Walters_Art_Museum