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The Daimyo Lords of Japan and their Samurai Swords, Samurai Armor, Gold Inro, Gold Menuki, Rare Art
The Daimyo Lords of Japan ruled over an isolated country but very splendid in its isolation. Japan was the "Land of Gold", famed throughout Asia for having temples with roofs of solid gold. Take a look at Marco Polo's book: the Kinkakuji is described as having a roof of gold "four fingers thick". Of course it did not, but even today standing outside looking at it, it certainly seems that it might. And the Daimyo rulers of Japan were so in love with beauty and gold that they even carried Samurai Swords mounted in pure gold --- that is, until they were outlawed by the Shogunate as being too ostentatious and a waste of resources.
And then they were carried surreptitiously! I still occasionally find and see these solid gold swords but they are and were very hard for me to become the owner of - they are still very highly prized and rarely sold. The Daimyo Lords of Japan loved gold so much many of the things they owned were made of it - if you have seen the wedding sets of the Tokugawa Family and its dozens of gold boxes all decorated in the family mon in gold you will understand the opulence and beauty to which this site refers.

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Thinking about it one day, I began to realize that all my life I had loved the beauty of Japan and Japanese Art and collected it --- but that although I started with woodblock prints by Hiroshige and Hokusai, whenever I found examples, true examples, of the art that the actual Daimyo rulers of Japan had created and owned, then always my breath was taken away by its amazing and stunning beauty and indeed opulence The Japanese Gold Inro, the gold lacquer boxes, the gold tachi and tanto, the solid gold menuki in little kiri wood boxes (for viewing and collecting and showing), they just seem amazing to me that any work of art could be so skillfully made yet even I could afford to buy it, and so I tried hard to collect for myself the items that luckily came my way --- rare though they were. I found many more such rarities in the 1970s when I first started, rather than later in the eighties and nineties, as they all soon disappeared; but I wanted to show and share and perhaps sell some of these here on this site, as well as slowly introduce my thoughts and feelings on the art of Japan. I also collect and love the "Shibui" items of Japanese Art such as tea ceremony or Suiboku scrolls by Sesshu but these I will introduce and discuss elsewhere. This site is a work in progress and I will add text and photos slowly ...
Click here to see why I am in love with the Daimyo Art of Ancient Japan ... Many of these photos are truly amazing and incredibly beautiful ... and many are for sale now... And Here for more ... and Here for still more .... And still more ...!!!
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I have now for sale a number of Museum Quality Japanese Samurai Swords and Matchlock Guns; I have visited dozens of famous Japanese Museums and I can assure any potential buyer that these pieces are far superior to what I have seen on display there. Having sold 10,000+ Samurai Swords and Tachi in my 36 year career I can speak with confidence. Also I have been, of course, in dozens and dozens of Japanese sword collectors' homes and can also state that my pieces being shown on this web page are superior to anything I was ever shown. Sad to say, I have seen many Japanese collections purchased for great amounts of money over many years time from many famous Tokyo Dealers, where each and every piece was a modern reproduction in some way. What I offer has been very carefully selected as the best of all that passed through my hands, the rarest or the most beautiful, and most of these are for sale starting now.

Here are a few Museum Quality Japanese Samurai Swords and Tachi that took me 38 years to collect, and that I would now consider selling, as I am ill and retiring.
A Tokyo Publisher is now considering putting many into a book they are preparing but I can stop that or continue as the potential buyer wishes. I am preparing this site for just one or two customers who have expressed interest - I am not able to password protect it but the site itself is not mentioned anywhere else nor back linked anywhere else.

I have added 300 photos of Museum Quality Japanese Samurai Swords Here

***Superb Daimyo Kinko from My Tsuba and Menuki Collection***

And still more photos of Daimyo Art and Culture that I own and am now selling ........

I thought about it long and hard and took a number of days to prepare the photos but now realize I face an almost impossible task - If I wish to show just 30 Samurai Swords in detail, I would need at least 10 photos of each to give a full and complete 3-D idea of what is being offered, and this means Samurai Sword 900 photos. If I add gorgeous gold Inro and Kinko Tsuba we are easily in the thousands and thousands ... that will certainly make it the slowest loading site in history.
A Tachi Site Here Samurai Sword Fittings Here Beautiful Fuchi Kashira Here
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Here is how I would use one million dollars to create a collection of beautiful Japanese Art that would last for 100 years. I thought to myself, if I had a large display area to show the wonder and beauty of one thousand year's of Japanese Art, what would I choose to display? Well, here is what I came up with: I would display several silver and gold Daimyo Tachi, as these are the rarest and most desirable item, by far, of all Japanese Samurai Swords. So, I have selected five of the best. Then, to show the beauty and variety of Japanese Samurai Swords I have included several polished Katana that I fell are special in some way, and have added a few extraordinary Wakizashi and Tanto; then I added armor, a wall cannon, some Kinko Tsuba, a few Gold Inro depicting the Fox goddess helping make a Samurai Sword --- and then to help display it all I put in some sword racks, each attractive and hard to find, one especially beautiful one from my collection --- and there you have it. So, the collection starts below, and separately I will also create an explanation of each (not posted here) to get a better idea of the totality and its beauty and size and shape. And for dessert I have included an historically important Samurai Mempo: the face mask of Takeda Shingen, with box and worm-eaten papers. So, let's start:
This first Daimyo Tachi is one of the prizes of my collection: it was a gift from the Emperor Meiji to Professor Fenollosa in 1888. I chose it because I think it would be the center piece of any collection, and as such it is outstandingly beautiful, and unique. WIth a million dollars in hand, and a month or two in Japan to look you still could not find one like it anywhere --- in Tokyo or indeed, in the world. I have never seen or heard of anything like it. The Phoenix design is of course the private reserve of the Emperor and his family. The blade is dated 1356, a Bizen signed and dated piece. The Koshirae is a masterpiece of Japanese craftsmanship and workmanship, far exceeding any work seen on Western swords or even Renaissance medieval silver and goldsmithing... which, of course, would cost you ten or twenty times as much! Details Here !!!
This Daimyo Tachi is from the Ikeda clan, the blade is signed and dated Eiroku 3, or 1560; and the mounts are signed which is very rare in Tachi, since nearly all I have ever seen have been unsigned as a measure of modesty and respect for the Daimyo family for which they were made. These silver and gold mounts were made by and signed by Goto Family, Goto Mitsuhisa, and this family was solely responsible for the gold coinage of the Tokugawa Shogunate (the large Oban gold coins selling for over $100,000 each to coin collectors --- although each Oban is nearly identical !!!). Inside and outside : magnificent!!! Details Here !!!
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Next: a gold mounted Tachi with a "named" blade inside. I don't have much historical information on this piece, as is true with most works of Japanese Art, yet I included it because I thought it very very beautiful and the contrast between the luscious gold mounts and the deep black on black scabbard lacquer design quite striking, and will be wonderful on display.
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All silver matching mounts and gold urushi saya with tiny thin gold foil inserts on the leaves
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Each year, just two or three of these very rare and important Shakudo Nanako Tachi are made Juyo or Important Art Objects: this one is nearly certain to become a Juyo too, although most of these need to be submitted several times as this increases dramatically the fees collected by the selection committee This Koshirae is circa 1700 to 1760.

These almost never come up for sale, and I have had this one for 30 years. Juyo Koho Shakudo Nanako Daimyo Tachi Koshirae Details are Here !!!
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I will now add many photos of the others in the collection. Here are the polished bare blades, their signatures, their mounts, and more. I will add at a later date fuller explanations, but for now will just throw out a huge number of attractive pictures so that an idea of the full power and beauty can be had. I will continue to update this site later ...
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solid gold wakizashi with mitokoromono
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Silver Koshirae
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Takeda Shingen's Mempo with box and papers

Daimyo Gold Saddle and Silver Stirrups
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