Japan and Sword Related Photoes
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These are photoes from Japan trip Jan,2003
This is a yari with a saya topped with human hair! The hair is from beheaded POWs / enemies of the state during the mid Edo period. Grotesque but a first for me.
Top view of the yari saya in question.
It comes on stand of its own.The owner is really proud of it!!
Part of a collection
There were 30 odd swords in this collection, I spent 2 days there!
These are sayas being made/repaired. This is my saya maker's/ tsukamaki shi's place.
Talk about snow! This is a onsen jinjia North of Nikko.
Bell tower in Yumoto Onsen Town, North of Nikko
You should see all these lit up at night in the snow!
Ha Mono Tsuka, a sword museum in Gifu prefecture (Mino)
Forge, not active at that time of the year, pity......
Billows for the forge
Remainders of charcoal from the last forging session
Kamidana for the forge
All accross Seki City, there are many ads and signboards for sword shops. What a place to be!
Kaminari Mon in Asakusa, Tokyo, forever packed.
Smoke from this insence burner makes you smarter, supposedly.....
Big lantern at Asakusa, nearly everyone who goes to Tokyo comes here
Nikko
Nikko is well known for its monkeys
Nemuri neko, very well known feature in Toshogu, Nikko
Toshogu
Very unique icicles
Unique feature on one of the Toshogu roofs
Chuzenji Ko. Very beautiful lake near Nikko
Some parts of this lake are frozen, not entirely though
He aint going anywhere!
This is in Hida Takayama, Gifu prefecture
