Book Review: Hokusetsu no sengoku jidai takayama ukon by Takatsuki Shiritsu Shiroato Rekishikan

[Jo Anseeuw]

Title: Hokusetsu no sengoku jidai takayama ukon : Takatsuki shiritsu shiroato rekishikan heisei 21nen shūki tokubetsuten
Author: Takatsuki Shiritsu Shiroato Rekishikan
Publisher: Takatsuki Shiritsu Shiroato Rekishikan, 2009
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Color Pictures
Other: 78 pages, 30 cm by 21 cm, softcover
Topics: Ceramics, Documents, Kabuto, Katchū, Nihontō, Paintings
ID: B0284

Nice catalog, with a few helms, one armour, many documents.

[Piers Dowding]

Takayama Ukon led a fascinating life, becoming an inspiration to Catholics worldwide.

Some years ago I was surprised to see his figure illustrated in a fresco on the wall of a magnificent church in Oporto (?) in Portugal.

[Piers Dowding]

Jo, could I bother you for a close-up of the two guns and explanations at 21 seconds?

[Jo Anseeuw]

here you go

Jo, not bothered at all.

[Piers Dowding]

Perfect. Thank you kindly.

Sadly, there is nothing in this general explanation of teppo which could connect these to Takayama Ukon especially. They are simply two smallbore long teppo from Kunitomo and Sakai that Takatsuki City's Shiroato Rekishikan museum possesses.

[Uwe Sacklowski]

Is it common that the lock plate and serpentine are decorated that way?

[Piers Dowding]

Is it common that the lock plate and serpentine are decorated that way?

Not common, but there was a style of Kunitomo long gun that followed this format.