Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Faceted Tips on Chinese Swords? (Split from HOS Catalogue thread)

tsubame1 · 15th May 2007, 10:18 PM

Let's try to use the mountings too and other different types of blades to help
the joint-venture in finding chinese-treasured specimen...

Here a Kanto no Tachi late Kofun (before 537. A.D) surely imported from China due to the roundly casted sword pommel. Later japanese ones were innovated into flat plate work, with continental designs stylized the japanese way (Swords of the Samurai, Harris and Ogasawara, British Museum publications ISBN 0 7141 1450 2) :

and here a couple other examples both considered as continental, both early to middle Asuka period , around 540-600 A.D. left kirihazukuri with ridge line and yokote (not visible due to reflection), right hirazukuri with neither ridge line nor yokote (apparently, due to the poor state) with "Fukura", rounded point instead of strainght angled one in all the other examples I've provided. These swords were imported too and were mounted the same way as the others (Sato, "The japanese sword", Kodansha publication ISBN 0 87011 562 6) :

Hope helps.

15th May 2007, 10:18 PM	#11
tsubame1 Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Magenta, Northern Italy Posts: 123	Let's try to use the mountings too and other different types of blades to help the joint-venture in finding chinese-treasured specimen... Here a Kanto no Tachi late Kofun (before 537. A.D) surely imported from China due to the roundly casted sword pommel. Later japanese ones were innovated into flat plate work, with continental designs stylized the japanese way (Swords of the Samurai, Harris and Ogasawara, British Museum publications ISBN 0 7141 1450 2) : and here a couple other examples both considered as continental, both early to middle Asuka period , around 540-600 A.D. left kirihazukuri with ridge line and yokote (not visible due to reflection), right hirazukuri with neither ridge line nor yokote (apparently, due to the poor state) with "Fukura", rounded point instead of strainght angled one in all the other examples I've provided. These swords were imported too and were mounted the same way as the others (Sato, "The japanese sword", Kodansha publication ISBN 0 87011 562 6) : Hope helps. Last edited by tsubame1; 15th May 2007 at 10:32 PM.