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  1. On another topic, I mentioned earlier a little mid-Edo Nami-no-Hira blade that I purchased last year. The togishi was unwilling to work on it as it was a little loose in the saya, so it went to the shiroganeshi who inserted some 'koppa' shavings to grip the habaki better. Finally it went off last week to the now-satisfied togishi for a 'light polish'. (Something to look forward to in the background!)
  2. In case anyone is tempted to play with the stuff, I was reading yesterday about someone who blew the top joint of their thumb off, when loading an old toy cannon. Jean, normally I would just just flush it away in water, but I was curious to know what it was, so I took care to burn it on a flat rock in the garden, and not under any compression.
  3. Well, he said he makes all his own lacquer tools so he didn't need the spatulae. (My other friend who was also there however, did want them.) As he handed the 'finished' article back to me, he added a final word. "I still do not like this. You should strip it all back and start again." "The cannon is probably just an old casting reject," I said, "so I am not too bothered about getting everything 100% correct. Besides, I do not have your patience." Footnote. While I was preparing the guns for Sunday's live event, I gave the barrel of the little cannon a quick clean-out. Imagine my surprise to see how much blackpowder came wafting out of it. I wrapped up the pile in a tissue and burnt it outside. Gunpowder indeed! The pungent smoke gave off that familiar burning blackpowder smell which we get at every event. The inner walls must have been caked with it. Perhaps it had once functioned as a powder tester after all.
  4. With those Mon patterns, it could be Christian.
  5. That's great. Thanks Mark. I think Ray nailed it, but that was a TOUGH one!
  6. A couple more shots under different lighting conditions/angles would surely help clarify this, Mark.
  7. It’s true that the do should be held up by the mawashi round your waist. The wadakami will not bite into your shoulders. Can you show us a clearer picture or two of your problem? Have you tried attaching the front string to the front tip of the wadakami?
  8. 蕨手文様 - 検索 画像 (bing.com) Page full of warabite motifs
  9. Great topic and for me quite timely. Yesterday after the NBTHK meeting, I visited the excellent tsuba exhibition now on at the Osafune Sword Museum, and our sword sensei showed us around, commenting on almost everything. I took the chance to ask a raft of questions. Later over lunch I showed him a tsuba and asked where he thought it was from. Owari? Kyoto? Akasaka? He turned it over and over in his hands and I saw his facial muscles twitching as he narrowed it down under his analytical mind... Finally he handed it back to me and said with a smile, "Let's just take the Shoami escape route!" 「正阿弥」へ逃げるか? On the box I had written a note in pencil: ‘Owari?’. Later I erased that and wrote ‘Shōami?’ 'Shoami' is like a sponge to mop up the rest.
  10. Liking the tsuba design. I would go with a couple of your earlier ideas. Much (but not all) of that reminds me of iron kabuto etc., where the lacquer has been subsequently removed.
  11. Congratulations! Looks like a lovely blade. Apparently the 2nd generation Nobuyoshi, according to Tsuruta San at Aoi Art, later changed his title (affiliation?) from 藤原 Fujiwara to 源 Minamoto.
  12. Sadly I missed that NKBKHK tour too, but I joined them later for a day, on the coach ride to Oyamazumi Jinja and back again to Fukuyama Castle.
  13. 【2024年最新】花瓶 大野芳光の人気アイテム - メルカリ (mercari.com) Check out Ono Yoshimitsu
  14. Judging by the Genji sasalindo and wheels mon, the archery figure could be Nasu no Yochi.
  15. Ah, thanks, definitely added in Japan, but why I cannot say. For re-export in the Meiji Period, hmmm... that's surely possible. Interestingly, almost all of the 1864 experimental/trial Enfield rifle models from the UK (before the Snider) subsequently ended up in Japan, apparently.
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