April 23, 2003
More from Matsumoto-jo arms museum: fin-stabilized rocket mortars?
In a February post, "An ancient Japanese hideout gun", I showed a grainy picture of a "tanto pistol" which Jeff Sherwin had photographed recently in the arms museum at Matsumoto Castle in Japan. Tonight at the dojo, Jeff lent me a small stack of photos to scan with the better scanner (an Epson 1260 Photo) I picked up a few days ago; here's a sample:
Still a bit indistinct, but here's a breakout of the image on the left:
And the one on the right, which appears to be a mortar/rocket assembly:
I'm not able to make out any detail of the text on the placards in the display case, so I'll have to take pictures of the text on my own visit, whenever I get back to Japan. I promise a translation: my kanji knowledge has been getting reasonably adult in recent times.
Posted by Russell Whitaker at April 23, 2003 01:38 AM | TrackBack