
“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.” Francis Bacon
“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.” Francis Bacon
Today, I would like to introduce you to Japanese samurai sword collector, Chuck Scarl. I first met Chuck about ten years ago at one of …
Today we will be speaking with Tom Prall in our series of collector interviews. I have known Tom for quite some time, having first met …
“I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don’t see it as the handing …
“Today we will be talking to John Egger of White Tiger Military about how he first established an interest in collecting Japanese military relics of …
(I wrote this article for the Japanese military collector journal, “Banzai”. I recently updated it and have posted it to FOWM.) Nearly every collector or …
This vintage wartime photo shows a man posing outside, his “Good Luck Flag” or Hinomaru Yosegaki suspended from a wooden pole. Notice the thick and bold vertical kanji ideograms that characterize this