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The Journal Wantage KOTOKEN KAJIHARA ; MASTER POLISHER A PERFECT SASHIKOMI OR HAOIROI POLISH, A NEW HABAKI, A SHIRASAVA, A TSlJNAQI. FOR THE kOSHIRAE , APPRAISED AND SAFELY RETURNED ALL IN 4 MONTHS DETAILS AND PRICE'S FROM U K AGENT Or 0 CURTIS THE MILL LOCKS LANE THE JOURNAL WANTAGE OXFORDSHIRE TO-KEN goeiETY OF OREAT BRITAIN JANUARY 1983 Wcssex Press, Wantage. ~~~~Sothebys~~~~ London Fine Japanese Works of Art JAPANESE ARMS & ARMOUR including Japanese Swords, Swordfittings and Armour rlll'.·'IJ -·-~ }r• ~.,, f '\ f I, '"•"' .\ Japanese swords, sword fittings and armour are included in our periodic Arms and Armour sales. A shakudo nanako Tsuba, signed Tokakushi lshiguro Masatsune, 7.6 cm., sold in London on 17th March 1982 for £5,720, Enquiries: Chris~opher Alien Ex~ 320. a world public auction record prict. Funher sales including Japanese Swords, Swordfittings and Armour will be held on 16th Items are now being accep~ed for our nex~ sale. March and 8th June 1983 Enquiries to: David]. H. Macfarlane or Catriona Home Catalogue subscriptio11s £9 per mmwll illcludi11g postage. Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 34-35 New Bond Street, London WIA 2AA Blens~ock House, 7 Blenheim Srreet, New Bond Scree~, Telephone: (0 I) 493 8080 Telex: 24454 SPBLON G London WIY OAS. Tel: 01-629 6602 Telegrams: Abinitio, London W I Shinto Kantei Pr ogramme 114 This lval.cizashi is by; -~.\. : Hi ! d•I SHODA I TA DAYOSHI l -, . :.J t The carving (kirimono is by ; f r.tUNENAG:\ \t'inners U. K.: J. Eurro~s B. IIo\vells Holland : Han Bing Siong U . S ~ A . : C. Dird G. welch TAGAYCS:JI and :·iUKENAG,\ both s tudied with Umetada ~yoju. Of all t he students 'l'ADAYCS ~ :r 's sug;uha is t1•e best execm:.ed . London Lectures, Spr i n g/Summer'83 April •• " Ah'A AR IYOSIII & I Zm!I KUN I SADA'.' ..... •.... • }oi.Ilutchinson ?·lay •••• "T:!E EDO E.,'(!!IDITIOJ'\'' •. ........ .. ....••• . • ...• V. !:arris June ••• " GASSAN S,\DAKATSU" ..........•.•.....• •• ••••.•• G. Curtis July ••• "YAMATO ~ I ASANO RI" .•....... •......•.•........ • •• D. Le0: get t Help needed To make the London meetings worthwhile we need volunteers to share their sword study with t he attending members. The giving of a 20 mi nute, infon1al lecture i s a very good way of cementing your knowledge and stimulating other s . PLEASE VOLUNT~ER NOW . Shinto Ka ntei Programme 113 This wakizashi tog ether with its horimono was made by; I KKANSIII TADATSUNA It is dated Ge nroku 13 ( 1700 ) \V inners U ,K.: B. s. Howells D. Legg ett t-1 •. Lynn T. Read c .. Sinclaire F. Stride Holland IIa n Bing Si o n g Austria ~ J. West U.S . A . ~ J . Steffey G •. \.Jelch The yakid a ~hi on this bla de i s that g eneric to Osaka . The 0-notare with gonome a nd long a shi a r e a cha racteris tic of Ikkanshi Ta da tsuna. Combined with the fine horimono the attribution should be clea r. Congratulations to those members named above ! Keep try ing please. To those members who secretl y got it right,--- -cong r a tula tions too, but n ext time \vri te i n please, other,v- i s e how do I know I am being helpful ? .. Page ~o for the study and preservation of Japanese swords and fittings. 1. Mempo, by H.J. Anderson Hon. President B.W, Robinson, M.A., 8, LITT. 2. Characteristics of the hada and hamon of Hishlna, Tamba-no-kami 5 Yoshlmichi (Shodai, Nidal & Sandal) by G. Ourtis. Chairman G.J. Curt is, B.Sc., Ph.D. 3. The Soten School 8 by A, Bale Secretary H.H. Hutchinson, 4. Japanese Castles 10 by P. Cottis The Society holds an evening meeting on the first monday of every 5. Daigoro Tsuba 20 month, (except when this is a Bank Holiday and not in August), at the Hotel by D.n. Leggett Russell, Russell Square, London. The meeting usually includes a lecture and 6. The Yasutsugus 23 blade and fittings study. by G. Curtis 7. Winners and comments upon the Tsuba Rantei August 1982 28 The Soc.tety publishes a periodic Newsletter under the Editorshlp of: 8. Winners and comments upon the Sword Rantei August 1982 29 C. Slnclaire 9. Tsuba Kantei 31 c/o 340 Hurst Road, Bexley, Rent. DA5 3LA 10. Shinto Sword Kantei 32 and a biannual Journal under the joint Editorship of: 11. Obituary Albert Yamanaka (-1923 - 1983) 33 G. Curtis and C. Slnclaire, c/o The Mill, Locks Lane, Wantage, Oxon. Contributions to the Newsletter and the Journal are always welcome and should be sent to the appropriate editor. "IF YOU OWN A JAPANESE SWORD YOU SHOULD RE A MEMBER OF ntE TOKEN SOCIETY OF G. 8," c/o The Secretary; 141 Nork Way, Banstcsd, Su~rey. -50- 11. Obituary Albert Sumitakn Yamanaka The hest encyclopaedia, ln English, on the Japanese a~Jord W;JS and stUl is Yamanaka's Newsletter. Strictly thiR was called !Uhonto Newsletter, but this· monumentn l text was conceived, written edltted and produced by Yamannka-sensei alone, 60 for me .it's Yamnnaka's Newsletter. As such l.t will be his memorial. (A recent reprint 1a available through the Japanese Sword Society of the United States). The post war renaissance in sword study in th,e West began tn the late 50's. It became rapidly clear that most _st.udents who did not read Japanese were not going to achieve much knowledge. In Europe contact with JapanP.~=:e er.perts wns nil, so ther.c .was nn c;lmnce ·of obts.lning a aenseL Then the Lord provided n 'sensel­ by-post .. - Albert Yac:mnnka. Born in California, Ynmnnnka-sensel served ~Jith the U. S. Army tn Japnn and took the opportunity to study with Honnnml Koaon. After three years he graduated with the ranlt 'Okuden', being the highest which Honnnml-sensei useiJ. !le started to publish his Newsletter t.n the late 60's. (I paid for my .issues with boxes of 'Montev.uma' cf.gara, which he aecmed to pref.er to Sterling!). Yamanaka-aensei w1 Ll be remembered as a communicator. ne must have heen stretched by the tRA~ of producJ.ng his monthly Newsletter, but he always seemed to have time to promptly answer letters. This readiness to communicate his ewperience n~ver chang<!d even when sky rockettinr. sword prices made many greedy men keep their knowledge to themselves. Ynmnn.qka-scnaci dJ.ed in January at the home he had matte with hf.s father in the country tn Kngashima. He wna in his e~trly sh:tie~:~. ne came to tench ns when ~o:e roost needed it, - it is n pJty he hnd to set down hi,:; burden so anon. tf.3it\ ~ --- 10. I. Hempo by J. Andereon Identify the maker of this katana. Send in your answer by 30th April '83 The things that strike people most when confronted by a Jap~ncse S['mour S['e first the helmet and then the mask which add so IDUCh to the distinctive Nagasa (ho)' 73.9 cm appeara_nce. Facemasks have not always been worn with armour but their use Sort: 1.8 is so ancient that lt has now become an inseperable part of the .,.hole. Its Hoto haba: 3.1 function was twofold, first, and most obv.ious was to protect the face and Saki haba: 2. I secondly to allow the co['d of the helmet to be tied tightly which only K:lssaki nagnsn 3.5 becomes obvious if you have tried to secure a helmet cord over the bare N'akago negnsa 20.7 face. A third reason is sometimes suJ!:RCsted. this beimr that the mask was Nakago sari little to terrifv the encTIIV but as the enemy was similarly equipped it cannot be seriously considered. P.xecution: The earliest reco['ds of face prOtection come from scrolls depicting the This katsna is in ehinogizukud ihori­ GOSANNEN wars of 1086-1089 and that of the HEIJI HONOGATARI ll59 which show mune and fairly strong koshi-zori. The kitae warriors wearing HAPPURI and HO-ATE. The HAPPURI protected the forehead and is generally compact !tame, but near to the extended do..,"'n either side of the face covering part of the cheeks but machl .Is a patch of sumihada-gokoro, (blackish leaving the point of the chin exposed. It would ~eem they were of lacque['ed 0-hada). Fine; ji-nie is sprinkled across the iron but the use of leather cannot be ruled out. tlost existing examples hails. The hnmon and hoshi illustrated is in were made to be worn with later copies of early armour and are Lacquered deep nloi sprinkled wJth mostly ko-nie, but in black on the outs.lde and red inside although at least one example exf.sts places coarse nle can be seen. The nle which is covered with printed leather. cluster together to produce ash!. In the HO-ATE of the early period seem to have be~n a very simple cover for bosh! the ba.sic undulating suguha suddenly the chin and cheeks worn without a throat defence. The throat defence was widens in a bump immediately below the yokote. added later and by the second half of the 15th century the HQ-ATE was fitted The nakago is ubu with a ha agari-kurtjiri with a nose and became the MEMPO or half mask most often seen with armours. tip. The yasuTtmei la faint katte-sagari. It was at this time worn for the unst part by the upper class of warriors The me! is composed of 9 characters and is whilst the foot soldiers, who at this period were becoming more numerous.
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