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    I recently purchased and interesting armor item for a friend who was looking for a particular type for quite a while. It just arrived and it was contained in a hitsu with an unusual cover. This is the first red one I can recall seeing, the others have been black. Does anyone know if this would be called a bukuro as in a hitsu bukuro or is there another name. If there is a guess as to the kanji or mon that would be helpful also.
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    Fukuro yari.

    estcrh replied to estcrh's topic in Nihonto

    Thanks Chris, I can see just fine. Now thats something I have never seen mentioned or pictured. Thats the first I have heard of yari having two mekugi-ana.
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    A beautiful example, thanks once again for the excellent pictures. I recently saw a very unadorned Tanegashima for sale and it caught my eye immediately, I thought it would languish there unsold but it sold right away, probably a good thing or I would have eventually convinced myself that it needed rescuing.
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    Fukuro yari.

    estcrh replied to estcrh's topic in Nihonto

    Piers, the rivet goes through both sides and both heads look the same. This yari sat unsold for several years even though in my opinion it was very fairly priced, partly because the web site was hard to navigate and also because the images of it did not show how nice it really looked. I now use a program called IrfanView to crop and enlarge areas of photos before buying in order to get a better view when no more images of an item are available.
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    Fukuro yari.

    estcrh replied to estcrh's topic in Nihonto

    Chris, I havnt seen two mekugi-ana on a socketed yari before, any pictures of that? I have read that yari with the hole in the ishizuki were for horse mounted yari use, your possible use is interesting.
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    Only time can tell that, but it will be my go to site for Buddhist info now.
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    Fukuro yari.

    estcrh replied to estcrh's topic in Nihonto

    Here is a better picture of the rivet, I guess someone did not want to take a chance of the mekugi coming out at an inappropriate moment. I have read that some yari had faceted shafts but this is the first one I have seen.
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    Piers, quite a treasure trove of information.
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    Fukuro yari.

    estcrh posted a topic in Nihonto

    Awhile back I posted a couple of pictures of this ryo shinogi fukuro yari or a diamond shaped blade with two cutting edges and a socket instead of a nakago. It is signed ( Nobukuni?) and has an unusual 48 inch shaft (ebu) which is faceted and very thick towards the end cap (ishizuki). There is a hole through the ishizuki with a fitting for a hand strap. It was being called a kago yari but I think it is another type. The blade is actually riveted to the ebu and the rivet looks quite old.
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    The high foreheads symbolize large brains? (Chinese scholar/god) I have a gunsen that could use a bukuro, thanks.
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    Piers, are you going to tell us what the troll things are? I would like to see a translation of the writing on the bukuro that the jirushi came in to see if they are related, if anyone can help with that please post your thoughts.
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    Shinshinto

    estcrh replied to JCook's topic in Nihonto

    Jed, you might want to post pictures of the tsuba in the Tosogu section, it would be interesting to see what comments it gets.
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    Ian your right and I cant find out of there was really a difference between the sode-jirushi and the kasa-jirushi other than the placement. As for imagesl not many real ones to be found. This one looks old but I cant really say how old. Here are two images from an old Japanese text which by the sizes stated would indicate that the one I have might be a kasa-jirushi. http://rhinohide.cx/tousando/yoriaku/
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    Piers, Gnomes?
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    This was what was inside the bukuro, it seems to be either a sode-jirushi or a kasa-jirushi, a badge worn on armor for the shoulder or helmet as a substitute for the larger sashimono.
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    Piers, it is 17 inches long and it has an interesting item inside but not a fan.
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    Shinshinto

    estcrh replied to JCook's topic in Nihonto

    Do you remember what the seller told you about the sword when you bought it?
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    Here is another bukuro, I am not sure if the item it contains is the right one for this bukuro but maybe someone here will know.
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    Justin, you got a very good deal on a nice armor and I think Ian's assessment is correct, certain embellishments were more likely to be seen on a samurai retainers armor then on an ashigaru type of armor.
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    Keith I hadnt thought of that, you could be right and that would explain why someone went to the trouble in the first place to make such an item.
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    Thats a great site link with a lot of pictures of old everyday items. http://www.geocities.jp/kounit/mingu/fr ... kuzi1.html
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    The clan subsequently sunk into obscurity as a 3,000 koku hatamoto clan based initially in Dewa Province, and later in Shimōsa Province to the end of the Edo period.
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    Piers, thanks for the terms and for asking about those handles. , I took a little closer look at the kanabo and it really looks like it was a carrying handle in a former life, it is square on one end and part way down the shaft there is a u shaped groove were the handle of a trunk could rest to keep the trunk from slipping while being carried.
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    By the way, does anyone know what those tsuka and saya covers are called?
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    Ian, to be fair that yari is a supposed to be a recreation of some mythical yari "Otegine" Yes were are all those sashimono poles???, there must have been vast amounts of these tansu, hitsu poles and sashimono poles but they have mysteriously vanished. Probably recycled into some object we just do not recognize the origin of. Here is an example, a kanabo that was made from some other object, I just cant figure out what. The square end reminds me of one of those carrying poles.
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