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Saihai - Anyone Collect These?


SwordGuyJoe

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All,

I came across this http://www.e-sword.jp/others/1510-8009.htmand wondered if anyone collected these and would be willing to share. Thanks.

They are asking 100,000 yen for a saihai that is missing its tassel, whats up with that? Here is one that I have had for quite some time, it has a yak hair tassel.

 

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Saihai were a symbol of rank and authority, one samurai holding a saihai in a group of samurai would have been seen as being a leader. In the later Edo period the saihai was replaced with the muchi (whip) as a sign of rank and authority, many late Edo to early Meiji period photos show samurai holding muchi with no saihai to be seen.

 

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