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Welcome this is just a website about myself, I tried to include as many of my own photographs as possible. Otaku (おたく) as defined in Wikipedia "a Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests, particularly but not limited to anime and manga". My Japanese wife has recently started calling me "tsuba otaku" as I have such a deep interest in Japanese sword handguard (tsuba 鍔). The website features a set of twelve webpages focused on tsuba from my personal collection. There are also three galleries of the small fittings (kodōgu 小道具) containing the other fittings besides the tsuba for the Japanese sword and a Koshirae Gallery webpage containing full sets of matching Japanese sword fittings. I hope you enjoy my website and constructive feedback is always welcome. Please click below or go to the CONTACT page to email me directly.
New to My Collection

Hōan Tsuba (法安)
This a handguard (tsuba 鐔) made or forged iron (tetsu 鉄). It was made to be mounted on a long sword (katana 刀).

Omote (表)
The design motif is that of the Buddhist Dharma wheel (rinpō 輪宝) (Sanskrit: dharmachakra) with the atypical 16 spokes in place of the more common eight spokes.

NBTHK Hozon Paper
The attribution directly to Hōan Tsuba (法安). The NBTHK paper was issued on May 11, 2016.

Hōan Tsuba (法安)
This a handguard (tsuba 鐔) made or forged iron (tetsu 鉄). It was made to be mounted on a long sword (katana 刀).
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