Volume 2 of the original Hawley's Japanese Swordsmiths is no longer available! We no longer have volume two of Hawley's original Japanese Swordsmiths. For future reference, it does not contain the main listing of smiths, but several thousand smiths are still referenced, so it is a handy source of names and name characters, but it also contains all the tables and charts that Hawley included in the two later editions of Japanese Swordsmiths. And…
NEW BOOK: The Art Appreciation of Japanese Sword Fittings We are carrying a new book, The Art Appreciation of Japanese Sword Fittings, by Shigeo Fukushi. The copyright is March 2012 (Heisei 24 nen). There are approximately 300 tsuba and kodogu beautifully photographed, one to a page, with text in Japanese expaining the theme and history of the artwork shown on the piece. Each photograph is captioned in English with what appears to be almost…
Japanese Sword Study Series #11 Seattle Art Sword Token Kai Japanese Sword Study Series #11 A Review of Basic Nihonto Knowledge: Shape, Steel, Forging, Hamon, 1:00 PM Saturday, February 29, 2020Japanese Art Swords A gallery of fine blades and related art Located in Rain City Fencing Center 1776 136th Pl NE, Bellevue, WA 98005 On the second anniversary of the start of…
Japanese Sword Study Series #10 Seattle Art Sword Token KaiJapanese Sword Study Series #10 Developments in the Sue Koto, Part 2 From Oei (1392-1420) to Genki (1570-1573) 1:00 PM Saturday, January 11, 2020 Japanese Art Swords A gallery of fine blades and related art Located in Rain City Fencing Center 1776 136th Pl NE, Bellevue, WA 98005 At the end of the Nambokucho…
Developments in the Later Koto Seattle Art Sword Token KaiJapanese Sword Study Series #9 Developments in the Sue Koto From Oei (1392-1420) to Genki (1570-1573) 1:00 PM Saturday, August 17,2019 Japanese Art Swords A gallery of fine blades and related art Located in Rain City Fencing Center 1776 136th Pl NE, Bellevue, WA 98005 At the end of the Nambokucho with the…
May 11th Lecture #8: Rcognizing a Quality Blade Japanese Sword Study Series #8 Recognizing a Quality Blade 1:00 PM Saturday, May 11,2019 Japanese Art Swords A gallery of fine blades and related art Thus far, we have spoken of the general identifying characteristics of the five original traditions of blade making, the Gokaden. We have looked primarily at classical blades from the late Kamakura and…
March 2nd. 1 PM. Sword talk #7: Gokaden influences Following up on the Gokaden series, we will look at the spread and influence of some of the great schools and teachers of the Kamakura and Nambokucho periods like the Yamato Tegai, Yamashiro Rai Kunitoshi, the Soshu school, the Bizen Osafune school, and others. As always the emphasis will be on shape (sugata) to deternime era, jitetsu to determine region and school, and hamon to determine…
Mino Den lecture, Saturday, Dec 1. Seattle Art Sword Token Kai Japanese Sword Study Series #6: Mino Tradition 1:00 PM Saturday, December 1, 2018 Japanese Art Swords A gallery of fine blades and related art Located in Rain City Fencing Center 1776 136th Pl NE, Bellevue, WA 98005 This seminar will cover the history and general workmanship of the Mino sword making…
