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  1. Hank-Jen, a separate thread on damage repair to old boxes...?

    Piers, you will have to start it, perhaps with some pictures of one of your box repairs, very helpful. On that note, I just had a pair of matching armor boxes repaired, they were falling apart, I will take some pictures when I get them unpacked.

  2. Fair deals, nice guns. I wouldn't mind that carbine myself.

    Would be interesting to see the spring conversion on that percussion piece.

    The carbine was really nice and it had a fairly large bore, of course prices are not set in stone, I seemed to be the only person that even looked at them, and there were only a few antique guns there at all, sort of sad really.

  3. Typical Louisiana gun show, I was surprised to see three fairly nice teppo, the carbine was quite nice actually, missing nothing, it had a heavy barrel. An interesting percussion conversion, no decorations at all on any of these. The owner said she had a gun that broke open like a shotgun but it was housed in a Japanese matchlock stock, unfortunately she did not bring it, maybe next month.

     

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  4. What about the uneducated quote Brian???.

     

    Delete mine but keep his BS...if you knew about all the wantabe ninjas out there youd take it back...crap im pissed

    I think everything here should be deleted, mine, Stephens, Carlos except for posts that directly address Piers original post, I stand by my statement though.I think Piers deserves to be treated respectfully as should ANYONE who attempts to address any credible subject allowable under the forum rules.

  5. Nothing wrong with lightening the mood. It's an interesting topic...doesn't mean we can't have a laugh at it.

    I disagree with your analysis that it is ridicule. We all know the jokes about ninja. Having a bit of fun with the subject does NOT take away from the overall education imho..just lets us have some fun at the same time.

    Your mileage may differ.

    Here is what happens when one person starts the ball rolling. I guess "ridicule" is in the eye of the beholder.

     

    http://nihon-no-katchu.proboards.com/thread/2323/watanabe-proof-ninja-existence

  6. it must have been this one Ninja Eric!!!

     

    http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/22529-ninja-studies/?hl=ninja

    Stephen, on "another forum", Piers was basically ridiculed for mentioning this subject. This was by people who should have taken his post seriously. There is no need to make a joke of this subject or the people who try to discuss it in a rational manner. It is unfortunate that so little verifiable info is available about this subject. It is also a subject that interests many young people and I have seen them being ridiculed on various forums for bringing up this subject. No one should be subjected to being laughed at for trying to rationally discuss "ninja", I know this was not your intention but this does tend to keep other people from joining the discussion as they do not want to be the butt of someones joke.

     

    Just my personal opinion.....im just saying.....

  7. Well Eric, the official name given to that one is 'Kata Kama yari', i.e. One-sided sickle spear', but there is no hole in the back of the blade.

    In 1978 the NBTHK gave it the paperwork, but no suggestion as to its age. There was a smith of this name Kanesaki active around Bunsei, (Nihonto Meikan) said to be of the school of Suishinshi Masahide. Hmmm...

    Piers, I saw that it is being called a "katakama-yari" but it is not a yari as far as I can see, it is a kama / jingama / sickle etc. Below is a "katamaka yari". As for there being no hole, maybe on a custom made one the buyer had to ask for a hole???

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  8. OK this might not be the Ninja thread i was thinking about, but i know their real as i found them on FB today

     

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    Piers, some "uneducated" people would make fun of this post

    "Among around 150 items found in the house of 79-year-old Toshinobu Watanabe, 17 were textbooks on such subjects as how to make poison or conduct night attacks. Of the 17, four were written in the 1670s and 1680s, according to research by the Koka city government since last year.

     

    The documents kept at the home of the Watanabes also showed ninja acquired various other skills such as gunnery, horse riding and magic.

    The 150 sets of documents also included copies of 10 pledges written between 1700 and 1829 and submitted to a local feudal domain."

     

    *edit admin*

  9. Sticky warning!

     

    Can I just add a clarification? Members of NMB have in the past emailed me expressing their plan to visit Tokyo and particularly Aoi Art, and asking if I would recommend them. How should I reply? Although I have met Tsuruta San once, I do not live in Tokyo and I have never been to their shop. They have wide and generally positive exposure in the West, I agree. I keep my ears open and I hear things here and there, but with no first-hand experience what should I say? Give a list of rumours from competing dealers? The only direct impressions are what I get from their website, same as everyone.

     

    Just sayin'.... :)

    Piers,some of their deceptive (to me) recent armor sales are not a good sign, in the past I would have had no problem referring people to them, and I have, but if they can not be completely honest, or if their ability to accurately describe their products is beyond their knowledge then I would at least tell people to be extremely cautious. Once trust is lost it is hard to win back, maybe the current financial situation has something to do with this.

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    Originally made and dated Meiji 8 by (Gen 2) Sukekane of Bizen this blade bears the inscription 安仁神釼. It may have been offered there by someone local, not necessarily the smith himself. The Okayama Prefectural Museum has several blades in storage which need polishing and this one was the one most recently chosen.

     

     

    "dated Meiji 8"=1875???

     

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  11. Ken, many thanks.

     

    They were explicit that they cannot take donations from abroad. (Perhaps it is related to why PayPal in Japan for example cannot accept foreign currency payments?)

     

    The basic level of support was 3,000 JPY for your name in the book. For a 5,000+ JPY donation people will at some point get the oshigata, apparently.

    Piers, I make Paypal payments to "some" Japanese dealers etc. Others simply do not make the effort, to lazy or unsure of how to do it etc, they insist on wire transfers which have a high cost on my end and I need to either have the money in the bank or I have to deposit it. I often use Paypal through a credit card and then pay the credit card off, this give me some time to come up with the money. Japan is a very hard country to do business with, I have less problems with poor, Eastern European countries.

  12. Might be okashi!?

     

    On okashi, from "The Watanabe Art Musuem Samurai Armour Collection, Volume I ~ Kabuto & Mengu, Volume 1, Trevor Absolon, 2011. I would recommend looking for any writing on the inside of the armor.

     

    Something that I have no proof of but have thought may be a possibility, while people usually refer to "okashi" in terms of armors that we lent for use and then returned to an armory for storage after used, I think that some higher grade examples may have been lent to mid ranking samurai on a more permanent basis.

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  13. So what the hell did I just buy?  With shipping, I'll be in at about $1,200.

    Tetsu kuro urushi, hinero zunari kabuto, nimai yokohagi okegawa dou gusoku, missing the haidate. The shino suneate and bishamon kote seems to match. The odoshi of the kote, hanpo, kusazuri and the kabuto shikoro seems to match. Winning bid:US $930.00. Shipping: $300.00=$1230, so you bought what appears to be a completely matching, munitions grade armor with storage box but without haidate. 

     

    There a few other known examples of the type of armor you bought, late Edo period, no frills, basic protection, either loaned to a samurai that was not exactly high ranking but worthy of being given an armor to use or a low cost purchase. This time period brought an increase in interest among samurai to procure basic armor and weapons for themselves.

     

    Here is another similar example.

     

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  14. Does anyone have some info on the prints, who made them and when, title of the series if any etc? The "Tanki Yoriaku Hi Ko Ben" (Samurai armor and equipment manual), written by Hayakawa Kyuukei, 1735, translation by Matt Garbutt, 1911, shows the individual clothing and armor items in more detail but with black and white line drawings.

     

    Here is a link to the whole book.

    https://www.pinterest.com/worldantiques/tanki-yoriaku-hi-ko-ben/

     

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  15.  

    Italy libraries are filled of medieval witchcraft essay and the fact they were used in real life doesn't make witches less unreal.  

     

     

    Actually witches are very real, they exist in some form in many cultures....now as the magic spells, curses etc, that is a different story. The same is true about ninja and any supernatural aspects attributed to them. On the other hand, potions that poison, kill, heal, put to sleep etc are very real and the people who know about such things guarded their secrets, being attributed with supernatural powers only helped their reputation among the uneducated etc.

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