kissakai Posted March 21, 2015 Report Posted March 21, 2015 Hi I bought the book Tsuba Kanshoki by Torigoye, 1975 with English descriptions from Mike via the NMB Great to have such a nice book especially as it is a limited edition The tsuba images all come with an English translation and this was another reason for buying it Unfortunately the leading introduction which consist of quite a number of pages is only in Japanese Does any one have or know of an English translation for this book? If not do you think there is any chance of scanning the pages and putting it though a translator although it would be time consuming and it will be full of errors Grev UK Quote
Pete Klein Posted March 21, 2015 Report Posted March 21, 2015 I believe it would end up being gibberish. Perhaps it would be better to talk with Marcus about a possible translation? PS: With so many people owning this book I would imagine there would be broad interest in having a translation done so the cost could be spread out. Quote
kissakai Posted March 22, 2015 Author Report Posted March 22, 2015 I thought it would be gibberish It's to long to ask someone to translate just for my use I'll see if I can get a Japanese person to read it to me Grev UK Quote
Steve Waszak Posted March 22, 2015 Report Posted March 22, 2015 Pete's idea is the way to go. I certainly would be interested in contributing to a translation project for Markus on this book. The problem with having a Japanese person read it for you, Grev, is that unless this person has some good knowledge of the terminology/concepts attached to tsuba study, he or she may have some difficulty in communicating that terminology/those concepts with precision and clarity. Cheers, Steve Quote
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