SHIKOMI types?

[Bugyotsuji]

Just wondering how many types of Shikomi there were. (Someone offered me a Shikomi Kiseru pipe holder today.) The blades tend not to be especially good, right?

 

Had a quick look on the internet and discovered a Shikomi mop!!!

http://node3.img3.akibablog.net/www/arc ... 3-103.html

 

When I was a teenager in Paris I bought a swordstick with a beautiful gun blue and gold filigree epee blade inside.

 

But back on topic, what hidden blades have you seen, and what sort of prices do they go for?

 

OK, found this one, posted by a forum member on another site. It's very similar, but in red Negoro lacquer.

[Mark Green]

Hi Piers,

Here is one I picked up a long time ago. The blade looks like the one in your pics., I think that these were torist thingys.

I just loved the art work on mine. Likely very common, from other Japanese works. But still very nice. I like the mop wings, and the nice eggplant closer

I think I got this for about 200$ with shipping, maybe less. Not sure.

Mark G

[Mark Green]

Yet on the other end of the spectrum, is this SUPER, shinto katana, in cane mounts

Mark G

[Bugyotsuji]

Many thanks for the pics, Mark. I know that Shikomi are/were considered underhand, but there is also a strange fascination about them.

 

I suppose I am surprised by the amount and variety out there, and even more by the quantity still being produced today in one guise or another. In Japan they can call blades Mozo-to (imitation blades), without a real cutting edge in order to avoid the paperwork. I wonder where they are made?

 

Your cane katana is splendid!

[Aloof Pegasus]

Piers/Mark

 

There's a fan one here, altho' not as nice as the ones already shown.

 

http://www.8tiger.com/items/448969/item ... tiger.html

 

Cheers

Philip