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Ha! I never did find any keys for mine, Brian, & quit worrying about locking it up long ago. It finally dawned on me that the whole thing could be picked up & carried off, so now I store my valuable blades in my big vault, & insure the rest of them "just in case."

 

Nice work with the beeswax, Gordon - not sure the surface of my tansu is in good enough shape to benefit from that level of care.

 

Ken

 

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This may be of some interest, even though it goes back a few years:

http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/7086-katanadansu-locksmith/

 

Thanks for this Brian.  I saw it earlier ;-)  , and when I bought the tansu, i got a set of keys.  They don't work in the locks, but I was surprised how delicate the looked.

 

The Katanadansu came "unlocked" so that was more of a joke.

 

An interesting thing I noticed, though:

 

  • My handles are square stock and squared at the corners also.  This is not something that I have seen on any of the examples of tansu that anyone has posted.   Zoom in on my pics to see what I  am referring to.

 

  • Does this indicate a region that it was made?
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Haha. Thanks Ed. Those are all beautiful swords

 

Right now I am set, just waiting on Hans Koga to complete the Koshirae.

 

Attached are the swords. Both Tokubetso Hozon, the wakazashi also Yushuto.

 

Link to full suite of Tosugu, swords, papers : https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0S5n8hH4dCH5f

 

Hopefully by december i will have all in hand :-)

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