Interesting Old Article...

[Inaka no Shonen]

Came across this and didn't find it posted in here already. Interesting perspective from 1913, with photos of 20 swords:

 

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41321/41321-h/41321-h.htm

[TETSUGENDO]

Interesting material Scott, from one of the most prominent dealers in Asian art.

 

-S-

[Ian B3HR2UH]

At least one of these swords made it into B W Robinson's book The Arts of the Japanese Sword which I used to drool over as a kid . That is the ' Muramasa '  which is catalogue number 13 and which is shown at plate 16 a in Robinson's book. Robinson in his Reminiscence published in the Token society of Great Britain  programme 81 recalls the collector Captain David Craig whom he describes as " a magnificent man " . He said that Craig had bought several swords from Yamanaka and Murakami's exhibitions when he was a young man ie around 1912.. In his further Reminiscences published in the JSSUS newsletter in Jan 1985 B W Robinson again wrote about David Craig and his collection adding that the Muramasa, which a Japanese sensei had ascribed to Tsunahiro XII , had been left to him by David Craig on his death in 1960 .. I wonder where it and the other Yamanaka swords are now

Ian Brooks