I just picked up this Japanese sword at a show.I believe it to be a WW2, machine made blade, since there is no temper line visible .Could someone translate the charcters on the tang.
Thanks
I just picked up this Japanese sword at a show.I believe it to be a WW2, machine made blade, since there is no temper line visible .Could someone translate the charcters on the tang.
Thanks
Hi Destroyah , the long line of kanji is the date - October 1944 , the two kanji on the other side of the tang is the signature - Michizane . The small mark is the Showa arsenal stamp .
REGARDS AL
We are the Pilgrims , master, we shall go
Always a little further : it may be
Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow
Across that angry or that glimmering sea...
Thanks.............is it a hand forged blade ?
Machine made by hand if that makes any sense. Not in the old style by a master blade smith. The Japanese had to get them out by the thousands. Be careful collection blades can be addictive. Marty
Fortune favors the brave 644th td
It makes perfect sense, thanks. Too late on the blade addiction thing ; I probably need an intervention !!
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I moved this to the Japanese Militaria Subforum. All blades found in this pattern of the 1944 IJA mounts are factory machine made blades.
Last edited by BOB COLEMAN; 01-07-2014 at 09:12 PM.
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These blades are always manufactured with two mekugi ana. The blade is also dated Showa 19 which is 1944 so it can not be an older blade.
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