Handbook of Arms And Armor : European And Oriental, Including the William H. Riggs Collection
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It appears that the works of famous makers were copied and signed fraudulently even in ancient times — almost in the years when the masters themselves were living. Among the famous sword- artists one recalls the names of Norimune (twelfth century), Masamune and Yoshimitsu (thirteenth cen- tury), and Muramasa (fourteenth century), whose blades thirsted for blood, and should not, as a means of preventing accident, be entirely drawn from the scabbard! In Case O. 40 are examples of these artists' w...orks which are believed to be authentic: they have been borrowed from the collection of Professor Frederick M. Pedersen. Especially beau- tiful is the texture of the blade, which is character- istic for each master, sometimes recognized by lines of slag in the metal, or by the peculiar wavy line (yakiba) formed in tempering, where the steel mar- gin of the blade joins the iron back, or core. Some- I 30 JAPANESE ARMS AND ARMOR times there is a wavy texture in the layers of steel of different colors throughout the blade, in the style widely known to Europeans from its development in Damascus.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It appears that the works of famous makers were copied and signed fraudulently even in ancient times — almost in the years when the masters themselves were living. Among the famous sword- artists one recalls the names of Norimune (twelfth century), Masamune and Yoshimitsu (thirteenth cen- tury), and Muramasa (fourteenth century), whose blades thirsted for blood, and should not, as a means of preventing accident, be entirely drawn from the scabbard! In Case O. 40 are examples of these artists' w...orks which are believed to be authentic: they have been borrowed from the collection of Professor Frederick M. Pedersen. Especially beau- tiful is the texture of the blade, which is character- istic for each master, sometimes recognized by lines of slag in the metal, or by the peculiar wavy line (yakiba) formed in tempering, where the steel mar- gin of the blade joins the iron back, or core. Some- I 30 JAPANESE ARMS AND ARMOR times there is a wavy texture in the layers of steel of different colors throughout the blade, in the style widely known to Europeans from its development in Damascus.
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