Help with samurai armor

I was wondering if anybody can help me. I am a researcher in South Africa working in a museum. I have a samurai suite that I will be putting on exhibition soon. I was wondering if one is able to date the armor just by looking at it and is one able to say who it might have belonged to? It also has a katana with an inscription on the hilt, could someone translate it for me, if possible?

Thank you kindly

Frank

Hi
 
I can certainly date the armour for you, and I can get plenty of help from japanese weapons experts on translating the inscription on the tang of the katana or tachi. Please send some digital photgraphs to start the ball rolling.
 
Best regards
 
Toby McLeod

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I was wondering if anybody can help me. I am a researcher in South Africa working in a museum. I have a samurai suite that I will be putting on exhibition soon. I was wondering if one is able to date the armor just by looking at it and is one able to say who it might have belonged to? It also has a katana with an inscription on the hilt, could someone translate it for me, if possible?

Thank you kindly

Frank



















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Frank,



If you post pics I'll do what I can. If it was made with mon on the kanamono I can give a reasonable guess on which clan. As for the katana, I can't help much. There are others here who could probably help if you posted pics.



Regards,

M J Peters



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Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 11:59:27 +0000
Subject: [samuraihistory] Help with samurai armor







I was wondering if anybody can help me. I am a researcher in South Africa working in a museum. I have a samurai suite that I will be putting on exhibition soon. I was wondering if one is able to date the armor just by looking at it and is one able to say who it might have belonged to? It also has a katana with an inscription on the hilt, could someone translate it for me, if possible?

Thank you kindly

Frank









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Frank -
If you are a Yahoo member you can post photos to the photo albums
associated with this group. Why not let all of us have a crack at
that Katana mei and a good look at the armour. We are all sure to
learn something from the discussion.

-t
Tom Helm
www.ncjsc.org
"Moriamur, et in media arma ruamus"
- Vergil

On Jul 7, 2009, at 3:04 AM, Toby McLeod wrote:

>
>
> Hi
>
> I can certainly date the armour for you, and I can get plenty of
> help from japanese weapons experts on translating the inscription
> on the tang of the katana or tachi. Please send some digital
> photgraphs to start the ball rolling.
>
> Best regards
>
> Toby McLeod
>
> Please use my normal email addresses for any reply
> (t.mcleod@... OR toby@...)-
> this one is just a post box for documents.
>
> --- On Mon, 6/7/09, flytrapsa <fly_trap@...> wrote:
>
> From: flytrapsa <fly_trap@...>
> Subject: [samuraihistory] Help with samurai armor
> To: samuraihistory@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, 6 July, 2009, 12:59 PM
>
> I was wondering if anybody can help me. I am a researcher in South
> Africa working in a museum. I have a samurai suite that I will be
> putting on exhibition soon. I was wondering if one is able to date
> the armor just by looking at it and is one able to say who it might
> have belonged to? It also has a katana with an inscription on the
> hilt, could someone translate it for me, if possible?
>
> Thank you kindly
>
> Frank
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>



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