Rome vs Japan

[tlclark]

I wouldn't put a lot of faith in the money or time spent in conservation or weapons, while pendants, armour and other kind of medieval and renaissance gadgets are available: spectacular is spectacular is spectacular... and a poor sword cannot compete with a whole body court armor of infant king (put name in here) or baptism dress of queen (do the same)... sigh

How true! There are a number of artifacts that I would love to have but they never survive because they aren't flashy.

Anyway, romanticism is about close times being lost, and certainly XVI C. swordsmanship is pretty far away... Let's hope the recent/soon to be released movie about Javier Pérez Reverte's Captain Alatriste (centered in XVII C.) will sprout some kind of revival in the interest about all this...

Let's hope!

Thanks for the info. That fills out a lot of knowledge. David(Narukami) is right. I am perpetually amazed at the depth of knowledge on this site.

Like I said, I don't that much about swords and metallurgy but I feel like I should stand up for European craftsmen when I can.

Thanks for the post!

Travis