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Book recommendation: Samurai swords for the material battle


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The book I recomment here is the english version, there is a german version same price and a german hardcover version. Read it in two days. Interesting author and interesting book.

There is no ebook and I do not know shipping money, but READ it Barry.

 

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Wow.  An Excerpt:

"The 154-day successful siege of Port Arthur is considered the greatest military achievement of General Nogi Maresuke, who committed seppuku in 1912 after the death of Emperor Meiji in the tradition of the samurai to serve his master even in the other world."

Maxein, Otto. Samurai Swords for the Material Battle . Books on Demand. Kindle Edition.

 

I did not know this was done even in times of success.

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Been enjoying the book, thanks again @BIG.

 

Fascinating discussion:

"To smelt 10 tons of iron sand to approx. 2.5 tons of tamahagane, 12 tons of charcoal are needed.82 For the production of charcoal whole forests are cleared, which dramatically changes the landscape. Accordingly, Shichiro's report says: “Almost all the trees in the mountainous region have been felled except those belonging to the Tabe family, and it has become very difficult for the Torigami Branch Factory of Yasukuni Steel Production Company to obtain charcoal. However, the Tabe family has no problem supplying charcoal because they have vast lands and forests in the mountains. In the same way, iron sand can be extracted from their land.”83

Maxein, Otto. Samurai Swords for the Material Battle . Books on Demand. Kindle Edition.

 

This came from a 1933 survey of available tamahagane, of which there was none to be found at the time.

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