David McDonald Posted April 9, 2014 Report Posted April 9, 2014 Dear All Is there an article/web site or book that talks about the terms used in the actual signing of the nakago on a Japanese sword and fittings. I am not talking about the content but how they make the marks. Or what are your thoughts. Maybe atari and tanegane/tagane??? I see that some swords have the many little triangles lined up to make the kanji and some seemed more carved. And most tsuba seems to have the kanji carved but a few have the little triangles. Thanks for any help David McDonald jswords@mcn.net Quote
JDinMT Posted April 9, 2014 Report Posted April 9, 2014 Slough's Modern Japanese Swordsmiths has a chapter on Engraving, Stamps and Mei (the differences) and the Niho to Koza, ShinShinto vol, in the chapter on Gimei talks about the tagane makure and such in detail too. Those are two sources I can think of offhand. John D. Quote
Jussi Ekholm Posted April 9, 2014 Report Posted April 9, 2014 More experienced members can explain this pic in more detail. Futo tagane - thick & large Hoso tagane - thin & small Saka tagane - right to left Tagane makura - raised Quote
David McDonald Posted April 10, 2014 Author Report Posted April 10, 2014 Dear Jussi and John Jussi the page is very interesting. What book is this from? John thanks I remembered seeing it somewhere just did not remember where. later david mcdonald Quote
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