Edo Period Corner Part II

[Bugyotsuji]

Jean, thank you for the supplementary thoughts. I discussed these with some friends. Of course you must be right on both counts. Thank you!

[Bugyotsuji]

Wordsworth said something about emotion recollected in tranquillity.

On Saturday I laid out a table of objects, this and that, and with the help of the organizers, gave a talk to an audience of local citizens. Since then I have heard back through the grapevine that it was an acceptable afternoon and that people enjoyed it. I may have put a noose around my own neck though, as the city has now asked me to do a static display for their children's event later this month. Hmmm...

Onko Chishin, 温故知新, learning from the past, to fashion the future? The past can teach you about the future?

[Bugyotsuji]

Every weekend this autumn we have been donning full armour and putting on displays with old smoothbore ‘Tanegashima’ guns. Busy, busy, busy. On Sunday we will be part of the Daimyō Gyōretsu at the old Honjin (inn) Sankin-kōtai stop at Yakage.

 

The constant wear and tear of equipment means the ever-present need for running repairs. Most of these, you have to be ready to do yourself. The medieval battlefield would have been similar but more extreme.
 

I have just finished applying glue to broken tsukamaki strings on the tachi koshirae. A cheaper fix than ordering an identical complete restring! It looks fine, except when it rains and the transparent glue sections turn milky white.

 

Half a day I spent on reattaching loose  iron plates and chain mail on the kote sleeves, and the main frontal cord of the haidate had snapped and needed replacing.

 

Meanwhile, the matchlocks also need constant cleaning and prepping, before and after each display.

 

(PS Yesterday with Igor I bumped into Les and Ray at the sword museum! Small world.)

[raaay]

Hi Piers ,

 

yes it was very nice to bump into you too , pity we did not have more time there ,  Les and I  just got back home today , 

Edited November 7 by raaay