Dear All,
I found John Perry's website tip on snakes to be of great interest. A friend of mine has a katana with the scabbard covered in a snakeskin. A little damage lets one see that the wood underneath has been gilded giving a warm, yellowish glow ("underpainting", I guess in art terminology) to the skin. The most amazing thing is that NO SEAM can be found anywhere in the skin, so how the artisans managed to cover the rounded end of the scabbard I'm blowed if I know. It's a brilliant piece of workmanship. Fascinating.
Regards,
Barry Thomas.
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From: John Perry
To: samuraihistory@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 6:20 PM
Subject: RE: [samuraihistory] Re: CLASS PAPER. NEED INTERVIEW. VERY IMPORTANT!!!!! NEED TO BE ANSWERED IMMEDIA
This is a link to a web page I found about snakes in Japan and if you scroll
down you will find a family
of poisonous snakes and a brief description of there geographic
distribution.
http://homepage3.nifty.com/japrep/snake/ejaphebi.htm
Sorry for my first post to be a bit off topic but I though it might be
relevant to this current discussion.
Cheers,
John
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