Japanese Type 19 Officer's Sword

[Ethan]

I was bored today, so I took some crappy pictures of my type 19, and thought I might as well make a thread about it. Not the best sword in the world but not the worst. Some finish on the guard is still left, and a little plating has gone away on the blade.

[Bruce Pennington]

Ethan,
There has been a shortage of new gunto discussions lately! I just learned that the single ashi came toward the latter years of production. I had thought all 19s were single, but after having pointed out to me, and then re-reading Fuller's reference, appearantly "most" of them were double ashi and the singles came out toward the end. Don't know WHEN, but I believe the end of production was around 1935, so a couple of years or so before that?

[ghp95134]

...the single ashi ....

"Ashi"????? Didn't Nick teach you better!!!!


-- Guy











背金
はいかん
haikan

[Bruce Pennington]

_m__( _ _ )__m_

Caught red-handed! I promise to almost never do it again!

BTW, where do you get the "bowing" emoji?

[ghp95134]

:bowing: Caught red-handed! I promise to almost never do it again!

BTW, where do you get the "bowing" emoji?

LoL!!

No bowing emoji here. Use this: _m__( _ _ )__m_

-- Guy

[AZPhil]

Nice sword Ethan!

Semper Fi
Phil

[Nick Komiya]

Here's the gazette announcing the new uniform regs on 26th Feb. 1912. Note that the number of Haikan is related to branch, cavalry only having one and two for infantry.
Also, Guy's spelling of Haikan is off. Should be 佩鐶/環

[ghp95134]

...
Also, Guy's spelling of Haikan is off. Should be 佩鐶/環

I really appreciate this, Nick. I searched around for the kanji ... somehow I had alighted upon the wrong ones from the Ohmura site. Thanks for the correction.

_m_( _ _ )_m_

-- Guy