Bizen Yoshiro

[zanilu]

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Hello 

 

Following my compilation of information about Kaga Yoshiro of few month ago I was able to complete the subject by doing a similar work for Bizen Yoshiro. Though smaller in scope I hope it can be useful to all of you.

 

bizen_yoshiro.pdf

 

All comments and correction are of course welcome

 

Best Regards

Luca

[Brian]

Thanks Luca!
Added to the articles section

[kissakai]

Great write up - thanks

As it your own work It may have helped make the mei images as large as possible as you are not restricted to there size

Images are always better in colour but with so few examples I know you can't be fussy

Will you be working on an other school?

 

[zanilu]

Grev.

 

I have reported the better images I can find of both tsuba and mei.

Unfortunately most of the literature I have access to has B/W pictures and I did the scan myself from the books. As you surely know scan from books has its limitations in quality due to the printing process. I scanned all the images at 1200 dpi (going higher would not have improved the image quality). Using larger images in the pdf would have not improved their quality anyway. Also I had to compress (reduce image quality) to produce a manageable side pdf for upload. The original file was 94 MB compared to the squeezed one that is 1.7. 

The quality of the images I have downloaded from internet is varying in quality but is usually below that of the scans.

 

Regards

Luca 

[kissakai]

Hi Luca

I know how difficult an undertaking this can be so I applaud your post and PDF

 

[zanilu]

Thank you Grev! 

[JohnTo]

Brilliant piece of work Luca.  good references to your sources. A very scientific approach to a publication.  Thanks.  I must admit the brass inlay tsuba had no interest to me until a couple turned up as part of mixed lots.  They have grown on me.

 

best regards, john

 

[zanilu]

Thank you John

 

Regards

Luca