Samurai Auction In Oktober

[tom]

Hi,

here will be a good auction on Samurai Armor, Kabuto and other items.

 

http://www.hermann-historica.de/db2_en/index.php

 

Tom

[uwe]

Yep Tom.

The "Ott collection". Contained very nice items! High quality and valuable things amongst! Unfortunately at auction (ca. 25% + )

[tom]

Hi,

the Catalogue is now online. But when i see these Prices, i must smile.

Here the Link:

 

http://www.hermann-historica.de/db2_en/newauction.html

 

Tom

[uwe]

Had a guided tour through the collection last Monday Tom. The low estimations doesn't mean much....as you know!

[DaveT]

These are going to be very expensive.
 

[SwordGuyJoe]

Wow - Some really amazing stuff there!

[Andi B.]

I love the cute shishi kabuto!

[Gordon Sanders]

What is this creature?

 

A VERY angry mouse?

 

Love this helmet though. Unique !!

[uwe]

It's a so called "Oni". Mystical creature of Japanese legends.....

[Guido]

Actually it's not an oni 鬼, but a shikami 魅.

 

They are easily distinguished by their horns. Oni have square heads with small, conical, stubby horns. The shikami has the face of a shishi, and the ears and horns of an oxen, and is frequently depicted without a lower jaw (but not always). One will only see the head of a shikami, but never the body. Shikami are sometimes described as onimen shishi 鬼面獅子, "devil/demon-faced lions".

 

From the Nambokuchō period on, the shikami was one of the favorite subjects of maedate.

 

Here's one on a suit of armor of mine:

[uwe]

Nice armor Guido!

I`ve to admit, that you are right in this case. It`s indeed a "shikami". I was a bit negligent with my first claim.

 

Oni

 

Shikami

 

Sometimes also seen "Fûjin" and "Raijin". Gods of wind and thunder......

 

[Andi B.]

...here's the mouse and another grumpy guy...

[Gordon Sanders]

hahaha

[DaveT]

What is this creature?

 

A VERY angry mouse?

 

Love this helmet though. Unique !!

 

It's not that unique, I've got one. But they are very hard to find.

 

[Guido]

I`ve to admit, that you are right in this case. It`s indeed a "shikami". I was a bit negligent with my first claim.

 

Hey, don't be too hard on yourself - NMB is not a competition*!  The shikami is one of the more rare mythical creatures, and can be easily confused for an oni or shishi or something else along those lines. That I was able to identify it just shows what a warehouse of randomly stored, more or less useless, bits of info on obscure things Japanese my brain turned into. I'm not sure if I should be thankful or alarmed.

 

*I know that some forumites have a different take on that.

[Ted Tenold]

These used to be *very*rare.  Now all you need is a cell phone to find them.

 

[DaveT]

Pointing out the difference between oni and shikami was valuable. I would have made the mistake.

 

 

Thank you.

[Geraint]

Surely the toppai kabuto with double mabizashi, which the auction description fails to mention, is at least unusual....no?

Are we talking about that or about the shikami? (Which I too have learned about for the first time.)

 

All the best

[DaveT]

I think we are talking about both.

Here's my one.
These kabuto are hard to find. Momoyama period.