Hanzashi Kozuka

[Marc BROQUIN]

Hello guys,

 

I have tried by several means to find the exact kanjis for HANZASHI KOZUKA : kozuka of reduced size for aikuchis or tantos.

 

Any suggestion ?

Best regards

Marc

[Jussi Ekholm]

半差小柄 Kotoken Kajihara and Hawley glossaries use these kanji.

 

筈刺 This can be found from Encyclopedia by Markus Sesko.

[Marc BROQUIN]

Hello,

 

Many thanks Jussi.

But which one does seem better ?

 

Should we wait some more answers, in order to settle the best one ?

 

An other track is the writing of wakizashi 脇差 where the second kanji is the same as the second one of Kajihara San version. Should we see there an indication ?

 

Anyway, thanks for your help.

Best

Marc

[Marc BROQUIN]

Hello,

 

Any new advice ?

Best

Marc

[Jussi Ekholm]

I would go with the upper one as I base most of my terminology to Zusetsu Nihonto Yogo Jiten. Also in that book it is referred being a kozuka for tanto koshirae. Hawleys fittings terms has similar description referring them as small sized kozuka made for either tanto or aikuchi. In the Hawley book it is mentioned that Goto Tokujo would have been the first one making them.

 

Encyclopedia by Markus gives a description of hanzashi/hazuzashi that it is a small knife or kogatana that was used for cutting a notch to arrows. So this term the my understanding means different utily knife. I should have checked the actual description of hazuzashi before posting it as I wrongly assumed that both hanzashi would mean the same thing.

[Toryu2020]

Jussi

you are correct - the first kanji you give is Hansashi and the second Hazushi - they are the same thing according to Fukunaga...

-t