Sculpted Figures from the Chenoo (1818).
Source: California Digital Library / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b40874f4-a1e3-4b1e-88d4-9ca2cb7b41d4
#exploration #expeditions #swords #silhouettes #colonialism #shields #africa #art #publicdomain
On this day in 2009, our favourite author became Sir Terry Pratchett! To mark the occasion, and because a knight ought to have a sword, he had his very own sword forged from Thunderbolt Iron.
#Discworld #DiscworldConvention #TerryPratchett #SirTerryPratchett #Swords #OnThisDay #2009
Los Ojos del Águila (2017)
#design #graphicdesign #satanic #occult #occultism #esoteric #tattoo #minimal #minimalist #minimalism #art #digitalart #illustration #bird #sword #swords #art #digitalart
Enormous rodents popping out of holes is no basis for a system of meteorology!
This blade is another good example of a medium-sized Japanese sword: made in the 17th century in the style of the cavalry swords of the 14th century, then shortened by cutting away from the base of the blade, leaving about 81 cm / 32" of cutting edge https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/27601 #materialCulture #swords #japan
A good open-access book on how Japanese swords got short after 1550 and the Edo Shogunate forbade longer swords in civil life is pages 119-122 of "Art of the Samurai" by Morihiro Ogawa. There were always a few medium-length and long swords but if we think of the short ones as archetype we can fail to see the others. https://www.metmuseum.org/met-publications/art-of-the-samurai-japanese-arms-and-armor-1156-1868 #japan #samurai #materialCulture #swords
Shooting arrows at YouTubers! With @SellswordArts @instructor_bensei and @Tater_the_Bard
A lot of what we think we know about traditional Japan comes from the Edo period to the early 20th century. Here is a beautiful example of a full-sized war katana with a 35" (89 cm) blade. The Edo shoguns limited the length of sword blades worn in civil life, and the military swords of the 1930s and 1940s kept to the short length. Europeans also had short light versions of their war swords for everyday wear such as smallswords, hangers, and spadroons. #materialCulture #swords #sword
Bonnacon (ca. 1450), from The Hague, MMW, 10 B 25.
Source: National Library of the Netherlands
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/874939de-b92c-42b0-8535-356ab30611a8
#myth #bestiary #excrement #defecation #smell #legend #swords #shields #art #publicdomain
Did I mention swordfighting?
https://unskeep.com/video/Orck7iYoKr_BfeX
Old video from 2016 newly uploaded on my Unskeep account. It's got bagpipe music and a sword dancer.
#sworddancer #swords #performance #attraction #video #videolink
Latvian drag king Vincent Hemingway staging the executions of Putin and Netanyahu (photos: Baltic Drag King Collective)
#netanyahu #putin #bibi #russia #israel #swords #Ukraine #Gaza #genocide #war #drag #dragshow #Latvia #Riga #baltics #baltic #dragking #news #russiaukrainewar #ukrainewar #lgbtQIA #lgbt
The Death of Captain Thomas, and Escape of Wyer and Cammett (1841) by Charles Ellms, from The Tragedy of the Seas; or, Sorrow on the Ocean, Lake, and River, from Shipwreck, Plague, Fire and Famine.
Source: Library of Congress / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/dc190f5f-b29e-40c5-8ecf-c9e1fa68fbf3
#water #sails #accidents #disaster #sea #foliage #oceans #swords #shipwrecks #art #publicdomain
I have goosebumps & I'm not even in the room... 🤯🥰 Arms & Armour conservator Ted Hunter shows Adam an actual, genuine "samurai sword", i.e. katana, blade & it's even more beautiful than all the hype surrounding this item would suggest 😻💛
This is obviously "rich people overdoing it" stuff, which Japanese history apparently has a lot of - but godDAMN if it didn't produce some unbelievable pieces of art & craftsmanship.
