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Post by Otagiri Tatsuzou on Apr 8, 2005 17:53:08 GMT -5
I had originally posted these in an AA thread to tease our most respectable Armour Sensei ...   But I knew that someday, somewhere, I might find something (I was waiting for kote or suneate splints) to be found made of bamboo. But that is not what I hit, I found this instead ...  This comes from a catalog of a Takeda museum. I would have automatically assumed that this is an early bogu, note the padded kusuzuri, but why match it with a steel jingasa? Is this for war or training? |
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Post by AJBryant on Apr 8, 2005 21:08:39 GMT -5
Well, if you could get that caption in better focus....
Tony
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Post by Please Delete on Apr 8, 2005 21:39:06 GMT -5
Hmmm...
Take-Gu-Soku (Shigusoku?) ?-bei-?-you (Sengoku Jidai)
First sentence appears to be about what village it was found in, but that's hard to make out. Second one seems to state the obvious--that for the 'dou', or body, protection bamboo was used in place of 'zane' of something--I'm guessing by context they say leather or steel. The last bit is indistinct.
Living with poor enough eyesight that I've developed decent blur interpretation skills is a good thing.
But scan it in at a higher resolution to see how accurate I actually am, and to fill in those blanks. My guess would be a one-time ashigaru armour that someone made so he could fight (hmmm... sounds like the SCA!) and thereby improve his lot (by picking up better armour, for one thing!). But there are lots of oddities in the Sengoku Period.
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Post by AJBryant on Apr 8, 2005 22:46:37 GMT -5
It says "nouhei chakuyou" (worn&used by agrarian soldiers).
Most of the links I've dug up on nouhei are about a buncha peasant warriors at the fall of the bakufu....
Tony
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Post by Mykaru on Apr 9, 2005 23:28:03 GMT -5
It reads
'Take gusoku Nouhei-chakuyou (sengokujidai)'
I'd want more specific info before I accepted that it's sengoku.
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