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#1 2009-09-14 20:16:39

Rob Bondy
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Identify Hanko

I hope this link works.  Does anyone recognize this hanko?

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/hX … directlink


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#2 2009-09-14 20:56:46

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Re: Identify Hanko

It looks like 節. (Not many hankos have only one character.)

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#3 2009-09-14 21:04:42

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Re: Identify Hanko

I was even wondering if it was BP with something else above it.  I just can't seem to identify the maker.


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#4 2009-09-14 21:11:10

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Re: Identify Hanko

The top of the hanko looks like shorthand for "bamboo" (chiku)

The bottom looks like "EP" which stands for Extended Play which is like a 7-inch 45rpm vinyl single, but it's really 10 inches so it can hold 4 songs. Sometimes they are 33rpm speed vinyl records and can hold 6-8 songs.

So "Bamboo EP".

Hope this helps.


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#5 2009-09-14 21:26:06

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Re: Identify Hanko

Chris Moran wrote:

Hope this helps.

No. wink  But thanks for the laugh, (and the first part)


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#6 2009-09-16 00:24:29

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Re: Identify Hanko

Rob Bondy wrote:

Chris Moran wrote:

Hope this helps.

No. wink  But thanks for the laugh, (and the first part)

Rob, seriously (for a moment or two),

I can't be certain, but I'm pretty sure this is an early Monty Levenson (Tai Hei / Ku Setsu) hanko.

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#7 2009-09-16 07:38:57

Glenn Swann
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Re: Identify Hanko

Chris Moran wrote:

Rob Bondy wrote:

Chris Moran wrote:

Hope this helps.

No. wink  But thanks for the laugh, (and the first part)

Rob, seriously (for a moment or two),

I can't be certain, but I'm pretty sure this is an early Monty Levenson (Tai Hei / Ku Setsu) hanko.

http://www.shakuhachi.com/

Pretty definitely. I have an old Monty flute which someone had bought back in the 1970's- has that hanko, just 節,or joint/node/time/season/tune.... (tons of meanings). As you can see, the newer hanko has "empty" on top of this kanji.


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#8 2009-09-16 18:28:41

Rob Bondy
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Re: Identify Hanko

Excellent!  Thank you very much.


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#9 2009-09-25 18:38:53

Rob Bondy
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Re: Identify Hanko

Yup,  Glen was right.

I just got word from Monty, and he said it was def. one of his early ones.  It was never properly stored, but is in excellent condition.  I picked up a bag and utaguchi cover from him as well.


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#10 2009-11-15 18:38:27

Peter Kororo
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Re: Identify Hanko

Yes, 節.

The root meaning is bamboo node, by extension  an evenly-spaced period of time ( as the nodes are once one gets a ways up the bamboo). Chinese "festivals" (oriented towards agricultural productivity etc, so not holidays as we think of them) were spaced evenly around the calendar every half month (of the lunar calendar).


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