Why try to "repair" [ITITRW]

[Spartancrest]

Why?  https://www.jauce.com/auction/l1074409375

 

This guard is a complete wreck, yet someone has tried to put it back together - if that is the right word [ITITRW] - Crude yellow metal 'solder' on a very plain undecorated low grade tsuba [large]. Was it used as a test for a musket shot perhaps? Or too much punch pressure on cold iron?

 

[Grevedk]

Evening Dale,

It does indeed look like a musket shot, and if that is correct, then maybe the lucky fellow who survived that shot decided that this cheap Tsuba had to be his lucky charm - no matter the damage 

 

/Soren 😎

[Bugyotsuji]

You do see a lot of rough and ready weaponry from Saigo’s Kyūshū rebellion.

[Dan tsuba]

Hello all!

 

So, let’s imagine.

 

The year was 1573 at the Battle of Mikatagahara.  “At around four in the afternoon as snow began to fall, Tokugawa arquebusiers accompanied by a number of peasant stone-throwers opened fire upon the Takeda formation. Firearms, still somewhat new to Japanese warfare, were a known deterrent to cavalry assaults. Ieyasu had expected his superior weaponry to overcome Shingen's overwhelming forces and formation, but this assumption was quickly dispelled as Naitō Masatoyo's vanguard cavalry attacked and rapidly overran Honda Tadakatsu's segment of the Tokugawa right.”

 

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mikatagahara)

 

A samurai in the Takeda force draws his sword.  As he does a musket ball fired from the Tokugawa forces hits his tsuba and saves his life.

 

After the battle, the samurai must replace his shot and cracked tsuba with a new one.  However, he keeps the musket ball shot tsuba as a memento of the moment.

 

As the years go by the tsuba that saved the samurai’s life is passed down from generation to generation.  Someone along the way tries to repair the tsuba with some type of gold colored metal.

 

Anyway, just a fun sequence of events.  Did it happen that way?  If that tsuba “could talk” it may have a very interesting story to tell!

 

Onward!

 

With respect,

Dan

 

 

 

[Spartancrest]

Dan that reminds me of the Southern belle who explained her pregnancy, by having been shot by a bullet passing through a Union soldiers scrotum and lodging in her uterus - [Mythbusters, "Son of a gun".]   Did they keep the bullet?