Gunner, the oil you have there is Camilla oil. I have some of this same stuff and I use it on all my woodworking hand tools.
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Gunner, the oil you have there is Camilla oil. I have some of this same stuff and I use it on all my woodworking hand tools.
That's pretty much what I thought. I bought some from Japan Woodworking with an applicator and it feels and looks the same.
I can't read the bottle obviously and the friend of my daughter that speaks and reads Japanese left before I thought of asking her about this one.
The feel and color is the same as Camilla if that makes a difference.
smell will tell.
btw pure choji (clove) is bad for steel.
Ok it's not---it's Camilla. There is no clove type smell just an oil smell and light at that.
I sent a copy of the picture to the translator also and it just came back as "Pure Camilla" whatever pure Camilla is---distilled several times I guess.
Sadly, those virtues and the bushido code was really an invention of the 1600s to justify the continued existence of samurai. They were a dying breed after the unification under Tokugawa. After Tokugawa united Japan and outlawed firearms, the class system continued to exist, but the purpose of the samurai did not. So they romaticized themselves and started living by the code of bushido to justify their continued existence.
Before unification, samurai were more or less mercenaries. There are many accounts of samurai switching sides during the course of battle and running away when it was clear their side had lost. Of course, there was the traditional beheading of opponents to collect bounties on heads as well. Lots of savage stuff, not what the romatic literature wants us to believe.
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Here ya go Zib. You could even try some of these guys... if you win lotto.
swordsmith&bladesmith
Licensed swordsmiths in Japan are considered living national treasures & they charge accordingly :)
I can't even afford an Iwasaki razor let alone a katana :rofl2: