Japanese Arms in 17th century Dutch paintings

[Okan]

Hiya!

 

I wrote an article on Japanese swords in the Golden Era Dutch paintings. Hope you enjoy it. (Had to go through nearly 6000 paintings, literally.) 

 

https://medium.com/p/a21cb4051788

 

 

[Baba Yaga]

That was interesting, anything about Nanban Tsuba in your research? 

[Gakusee]

Well done, Okan

[Okan]

Thank you @Gakusee 

 

No @Baba Yaga not yet. Peter wrote a great article about signed Nanban Tsuba recently:

 

https://www.mandarin.../signed-nanban-tsuba

 

 

[Matsunoki]

I think that’s pretty amazing. Very interesting and surprising. Excellent. Many thanks. Colin.

[Grevedk]

Evening Okan,

 

I will second Colin - pretty amazing and a rather cool study - thank you for sharing 😎👍 What tricked your curiosity on that perspective? And - maybe there’s even Japanese wood block prints somewhere of samurai wearing rapier’s. 
 

/Soren

[Jussi Ekholm]

Great stuff Okan