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1 antique World War II Japanese samurai Naval officer's sword available. The blade in this sword is an old family blade from around the mid/late 1500's A.D. This sword would make an important addition to any collection. This sword is not signed. The nakago looks to have been shortened during ancient times so the signature was likely cut off. There are two holes in the tang--each is hand-cut.

All Naval fittings are of exceptional quality. Note how much gold gilt is present on all fittings. There is a fine Naval clasped hands sarute/tassel loop. There are no menuki on the tsuka--a common variation. There is also a fine Silver Samuri family mon.

This mon is of the Chinese bellflower. This mon represents the following Samurai clans: Ota Dokan 1432-1486 A.D., Kakegawa in Suruga, Fukazawa, Matsudaira, Oshima in Suruga, Kuwayama, Takiwaki, Sakurai in Kazusa, Toyama, and the Tsuneoka. Silver Samurai family mon are seen most often on Army swords. Family mon are not common on Naval swords. The blade measures 26 7/8' (68.3 cm) from blade tip to notch in the blade spine. This fine sword has a straight hamon/temper line. The saya is the higher-class sharkskin.

This sword has its very fine, original silk Officer's tassel.

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'The answer is, 'Yeah, that's what I do.' ' To say that the Violent Femmes--who blend choppy guitars and bare-bones arrangements, punchy riffs, and self-effacing lyrics with often Captain Beefheartesque experimentalism--have had an up-and-down career is an understatement.

Gano, the son of a preacher, has flirted with Christian messages in such tunes as 'Country Death Song' and 'Jesus Walking on the Water,' a seeming contradiction to his penchant for penning teen anthems dealing with masturbation, rebellion, and chicks ('36-24-36'). Critics often scratched their heads in confusion over the band's musical direction and issued some quite unkind assessments of Gano's religious inclinations.

'A lot of people have a hard time with different viewpoints or different ideas coming from the same writer,' says Gano, chronicler of a twisted Americana--like Aaron Copland on acid. 'In rock, songwriters are supposed to be speaking to you from their heart, meaning what they truly believe.

Play free online euchre card games. Critics like artists to be simple and straightforward. 'That's a problem we constantly have with this business.' Still, the Violent Femmes have had their share of success. Their eponymous 1983 debut LP on Slash/Warner stands as one of the first and most successful alternative rock releases. Its 1984 follow-up, Hallowed Ground, while critically panned, is a post-punk classic. Producer Jerry Harris of the Talking Heads produced the band's third and most commercially successful album, 1986's The Blind Leading the Naked, before the band split temporarily, with Gano and bassist Brian Ritchie releasing a series of solo projects.

The band regrouped three years later only to crash and burn with 1989's stylistically jumbled 3and 1991's nostalgia-fueled Why Do Birds Sing?, which included an insipid cover of Culture Club's insipid 'Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?' A 1993 greatest hits and live rarities compilation, Add it Up (1981-1993), is a strong representation of the band's most creative output. At Elektra Records, the band gained more artistic freedom, releasing a pair of darker discs that died on the racks. A subsequent deal with Interscope Records--home to Primus and Limp Bizkit--looked promising, but for four years the label declined to release any of the band's tapes.

The Violent Femmes languished in rock-'n'-roll oblivion. 'We got away from there,' Gano explains. 'It wasn't with any nastiness, which was nice, but it just wasn't working. And we were able to take the recordings with us.' Those long silent tapes will finally get an airing in February on the smaller Beyond label.

And a live concert CD, Viva Wisconsin, is due out in November. 'If that all works, it will be great,' Gano adds. 'It will start to make up for all the years of not having anything come out when we were doing a lot of good work.' Meanwhile, the vagaries of the music business have done nothing to dim Gano's enthusiasm for his craft. 'From day one, the band had a 'sound' that is still recognizable,' he says. 'But we are better musicians, and we keep finding more and more ways as a trio to bring more colors and more instruments into the live shows.