Displaying your weapons

[Chook]

How many of you display your shinai or bokken in your home? Failing that (or exceeding, as it may be), who displays actual blades?

I've only been doing kendo for 1.5 years, and although I rarely use them, I display the three bokken I own in my room.

http://www.zipworld.com.au/~dpds/mibokken.jpg

[ALI G]

How many of you display your shinai or bokken in your home? Failing that (or exceeding, as it may be), who displays actual blades?

I've only been doing kendo for 1.5 years, and although I rarely use them, I display the three bokken I own in my room.

http://www.zipworld.com.au/~dpds/mibokken.jpg

Moh Importantleez...Mez likez da 1/2 yardz diplayedz......

[Chook]

Ah yes. My other hobby. :)

[DanDan]

wow
clever display...
i wish i had a no parking sign in my room...

[Chook]

I have a slight insect/vehicle problem. I'm getting the room sprayed next week

[streetcleaner]

i think you've got you bokkens upside down. bokkens like swords shown with blade up

[Chook]

Damn. Is this true?

[Chook]

Actually yeah, thanks for pointing that out. Looks much better.

[Chopstix]

I can see your Aus Kendo Renmei membership book presumably fresh with "3rd kyu" stamped on it. :)

Btw, nice bokkens. Mine's shitty as.

[minjih]

Could not resist posting these... :D

Both iaito
http://imageshack.us/my.php?image=Swords.jpg

Nosyu 2002 blade
http://imageshack.us/my.php?image=Nosyu.jpg

Cheap generic iaito
http://imageshack.us/my.php?image=Iaito.jpg

Shouldn't this thread be in the Media/Multimedia section? :confused2

[litige]

i think you've got you bokkens upside down. bokkens like swords shown with blade up


It doesn't matter, there is some post on this. You can do both.

[Chopstix]

Could not resist posting these... :D

Both iaito
http://imageshack.us/my.php?image=Swords.jpg

Nosyu 2002 blade
http://imageshack.us/my.php?image=Nosyu.jpg

Cheap generic iaito
http://imageshack.us/my.php?image=Iaito.jpg


Ahhh nice!!!

[Chook]

Hey Min? Guess what? My 21st is comin up :P

Kiddin. Where did you get these? They're beautiful.

[minjih]

Bought the generic iaito from MA World in Sydney, back when I first started kendo while dabbling in iaido at the same time. A year later I won an academic prize at Uni and sank the money into the (much nicer) Nosyu blade. That one was ordered off their website.

Now if I could just drag my butt off the couch and back into iai... :D

[streetcleaner]

It doesn't matter, there is some post on this. You can do both.
of course you can do both. but one way is correct and other is not. thats the only difference

[litige]

of course you can do both. but one way is correct and other is not. thats the only difference

Of course MartialArt Encyclopedia, thank you very much, but did you bother to go read the posts on this?

[luckyb]

Ooo ooo, I did, I did!

there are two ways you can display a katana in a rack, or katana kake:
1) omote (front: the handle to the left): this method of display does not allow the swordsman to grasp the saya with his left hand and quickly draw the blade, so it was usually used by people of high social rank.

2) ura (back: the handle to the right): this allows combative readiness for the above reason and hence was preferred by warriors.

as gorden warner and donn draeger note in their book "japanese swordsmanship": "A discerning visitor might instantly understand the combative atmosphere of a warrior's residence, or the lack of it, as indicated by his host's mehtod of sword display."


Sword collectors who do not have an intimate bond to the sword they are displaying present the sword omote. A student of the way displays the sword ura to represent his spiritual bond with the sword and to show that the owner and the sword are bound together as students of the way.

It is considered not only bad form, but bad karma to display a sword improperly (i.e. - students should display ura, collectors omote)

If you really want to delve deeper into this a student of the way should consider getting his sword blessed by a shinto priest when he first takes possession of it. Swords are often commissioned to commemorate the birth of a son/daughter or the purchase of a new home.

And btw, blade down means the owner is dead, and well, since there's a post here, it cant mean Chook is dead.

[DCPan]

Ooo ooo, I did, I did!



And btw, blade down means the owner is dead, and well, since there's a post here, it cant mean Chook is dead.

Not necessarily, tachi is displayed edge down.

And the collector vs. student distinction is not agreed upon by everyone.

A student of the arts can display the swords omote to show his understanding of "saya no uchi".

It's "too late" for you if you are so desperate you have to draw the sword while it is on the stand.

:D

[CUDALAX21]

Damn minjih I love the gold colored blade that is nice looking! Where did you get it? And for how much?

[Hai_hai]

I am always displaying my weapons everywhere I go except in winter when I am wearing my gloves.

[Washington]

http://www.geocities.com/seasonintonight/shinai.html

[SaitoHajime]

2 shinai and 1 wallhanger sitting on the floor at home.