Post by Sō Haruko on Mar 13, 2012 18:24:36 GMT -5
I'm currently reading Samurai: an Illustrated History by Matsuo Kure. (Can be found on Amazon, here: www.amazon.com/Samurai-An-Illustrated-History-No/dp/0804832870/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1331681095&sr=8-1 )
It was a lucky find at Book-Off and I'm so glad we picked it up. It's stuffed full of gorgeous color illustrations, and photographs that the author took at Japanese re-enactments.
I have not finished it yet, but it's quite thorough in discussion of armor of the various periods, and a great resource for seeing a wide variety of samurai kits from the 5th to the 16th centuries. I especially like all the reenactment photos -- it's good to see real people wearing the outfits so that you get a better idea of how it was done.
Now I am trying to figure out how you actually get an arrow out of an ebira, because all the photos show that it is worn at the low right hip, and crosses the back with the fletchings pointed up and to the left, making the fletched area mostly inaccessible to your right hand. I'm guessing that you pull the arrow tip with your right hand first a little up out of the base of the ebira, then down and out of the upper straps?
I would love to post a few scans from this book just to ask questions about them, but am unsure what the board's policy is on that.
It was a lucky find at Book-Off and I'm so glad we picked it up. It's stuffed full of gorgeous color illustrations, and photographs that the author took at Japanese re-enactments.
I have not finished it yet, but it's quite thorough in discussion of armor of the various periods, and a great resource for seeing a wide variety of samurai kits from the 5th to the 16th centuries. I especially like all the reenactment photos -- it's good to see real people wearing the outfits so that you get a better idea of how it was done.
Now I am trying to figure out how you actually get an arrow out of an ebira, because all the photos show that it is worn at the low right hip, and crosses the back with the fletchings pointed up and to the left, making the fletched area mostly inaccessible to your right hand. I'm guessing that you pull the arrow tip with your right hand first a little up out of the base of the ebira, then down and out of the upper straps?
I would love to post a few scans from this book just to ask questions about them, but am unsure what the board's policy is on that.
