Nihonto education and the Nihonto.ca site

[Marius]

I have been googling for nioi deki hamon recently and I have found several pages from the excellent nihonto.ca site run by Darcy Brockbank. Since Darcy has no swords to sell at the moment and he has taken down the swords that have been sold, a big piece of educational material is missing, unless you google for it, that is.

 

I would like to take advantage of this forum to ask Darcy if maybe he were prepared to publish all the information about swords that were once shown on nihonto.ca? Darcy's descriptions are simply excellent, his photographs are very detailed, so that every bit of information on his site is (or was) highly educational. Having everything in one place would facilitate studies.

 

Obviously, it is Darcy's decision and I would understand if he declined to run a part of his site for purely educational reasons. I know it would take some of his precious time (which nobody has to spare) and I am sure such a site would attract traffic (which means costs of bandwith, hardware, etc...). Besides, he has put an enourmous effort in those descriptions and pictures. So, in a way, my proposal is indecent as the realisation of it would in effect be a free lunch at Darcy's expense...

 

Maybe, should Darcy be so generous and agree to release his materials, we, the board members here could find a solution, maybe someone can host this, etc etc... Maybe someone could publish a book with Darcy's descriptions and pictures? (this one could be for profit, obviously). I know, that is quite far fetched, but I am just exploring the possibilities....

 

But the first, necessary step would be for Darcy to say yes. If he does not, I am sure everybody will understand. So please treat this as an idea only. I hope I have not put Darcy in an awkward situation. If I have, I would kindly ask Brian, our admin, to remove this post.

 

In any case, please keep in mind that this is just an idea and it may simply be too much to ask for. Darcy, do not be angry with me, please?

 

Best regards

[Darcy]

Hi, thanks for the compliments.

 

Here's a link to some of the swords:

 

http://www.nihonto.ca/reference.html

 

I didn't mean to take them down... I intend on getting back into completing the book I'm working on with Bob Benson and the future series, that should take care of the reference needs going forward...

 

I have just had no time to deal with my site unfortunately.

[Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini]

I intend on getting back into completing the book I'm working on with Bob Benson and the future series, that should take care of the reference needs going forward...

 

Please let us updated about the project. I'm interested in a purchase.

Have you considered the e-book solution ?

[Darcy]

The book is being published online, I am not making e-books available (people will just copy it, and I've sunk in many hundreds of hours and somewhere around $15,000 into making the book so far... so I hope to break even on the expenses.

 

Anyway, once I get around to fixing the typos and all that jazz, you'll be able to buy with a click, it will print on demand and be shipped to you from the USA by the method of your choice.

 

Just gotta get around to doing the final touches .

[Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini]

Surely it's well-worth the waiting. Thanks for the info, Darcy.

[Marius]

The book is being published online, I am not making e-books available (people will just copy it, and I've sunk in many hundreds of hours and somewhere around $15,000 into making the book so far... so I hope to break even on the expenses.

 

Anyway, once I get around to fixing the typos and all that jazz, you'll be able to buy with a click, it will print on demand and be shipped to you from the USA by the method of your choice.

 

Just gotta get around to doing the final touches .

 

I will definitely be a buyer :D Wonderful that you will hacve it published.

 

Thanks a lot Darcy :-)

 

Please do keep up us here up to date