Nihonto Club Anyone ?

Are there j-Girl groupies there that engage in Cos-Play? If so, I'm in!

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Sorry Ghost - the Japanese was just on the off chance there were any Japanese (only) speaking Nihontophiles lurking and to see if I could get a response... I know it might sound strange but what I am into is HUGE in many countries - especially the US and UK (not just Japan) but I have yet to see any sort of group or club (informal or otherwise) here in BA - so hoping that if there isn't one maybe I can be the one to kick one off here...
 
Here is the sort of group or organization I would love to set up here if there was the interest: http://www.nbthk-ab.org/
 
Juanito-san, what a superb-marvelous "Hamon" on the blade ! Almost like seeing the swell of the ocean water!
I hoping you are _powdering it very often_
especially the blood residual sticks to the blade and the only to wipe it off is by powder called
the "Uchiko powder"..In order to gather more club members, I can send a bunch of Katanas made from automobiles leaf springs and much used during the WW II due to Japan was very poor in resourcing for the mineral to forge into real Katanas. So the younger just graduted officers og the era had to be contented by
the Nippontou made out from cars leaf springs melted down to making the Katanas and those were called
Showa Nihon tous... Normally they are forged this way in the video but during the WW II they were all fakes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxGea0ZtPUA&list=PLBF70ABA043609BE1&index=2
 
Hybrid Ambassador - I'm glad you mentioned ''showa-to'' - its surprising how many Nihonto collectors got into the hobby that way - that first pickup from a garage sale or a deceased estate... Of course its also interesting what *surprises* pop up from time to time. One of my personal favourites? A normal WW2 Japanese officer mounted (shin gunto mounted) katana turned up back home about 20 years ago ago - in somebody's garage. Grandad had brought it back from the war (the usual story). Of course the guy who was lucky enough to spot it and buy it for almost nothing had NO IDEA what that blade was - it turned out to be a 700 year old Masamune and I think at the time it ended up going for way over 200,000 USD (today the price would probably be closer to 500,000 USD for a genuine piece made by the master himself...:) Not bad for a day's work - but then again, if you DID find a treasure like this - although (obviously) the money is tempting - would you REALLY sell it? THAT Is the question :) lol
 
This reminds me Hybrid Ambassador - if you had the chance for some up close sword study in Japan you will have come across swords with ''cutting test'' inscriptions on the nakago (tang). As you know, the traditional testing of a katana is ''tamashigiri'' - cutting of rolled up tatami mats (from the Japanese point of view these most closely approximate the consistency of human flesh and bone - for cutting purposes). Of course in the old days the Japanese didn't believe in ''wasting anything'' - so if they had a few convicted criminals who were ready for execution they would be used for the cutting test instead. I have seen blades with inscriptions to show that with a *single* cut they have cut through one, two or three bodies - ONE cut... In the old days the swordsmiths themselves were ranked on various criteria - one of those being sharpness of their blades - I have had swords ranked ''wazamono'' and ''o-wazamono'' (basically *scary* sharp lol) before - but one sword I saw in Japan absolutely blew me away - the inscription (from memory) claimed that it had cut through SEVEN bodies in a single stroke... Well, as we both know, false advertising is not just a 21st century thing - its been going on for centuries - and I still really don't know - but wow, if ANY sword can be made *that* sharp - well its simply mind blowing... Naturally, a master samurai would have wielded the blade and he would have had the most perfect of cutting techniques - but really, just incredible... There are days when I look at my 350 year old masterpiece and I am truly in awe. Although it is an ''antique weapon'' nowadays at the time it truly was the ''atomic bomb'' of its time... The traditionally made katana is a thing of incredible beauty and is a sublime art form - but it is also the most insanely lethal killing weapon in the hands of one who knows how to use it... What these traditional Japanese smiths achieved totally *by hand* - their art - their craftsmanship - I believe there is nothing in the modern world today that compares with it... Not even close...
 
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