Japanese WWll Army officer\'s sword in mountings Gendaito \"Kanezumi\", tassel


Japanese WWll Army officer\'s sword in mountings Gendaito \

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Japanese WWll Army officer\'s sword in mountings Gendaito \"Kanezumi\", tassel:
$1600.00


This is a JapaneseWWllArmyofficer`ssword in mountings. The blade is signed \"Kanezumi 兼住\", dated \"Showa Juroku-nen 昭和十六年 (1941)\",shinogi-zukuri shape,WWlltime period made blade. Kanezumi\'s real name is Sato Kohachi, born in 1890 in Kamo-gun, Gifu prefecture,made swordsduring WWll time period and after the war as a Gendai smith, listed in John Slough\'s book page 66.The blade istraditional hand forged, inoriginal war tome polish, no rust, no stainand in excellent condition.The temper line is wavy gunome-choji temper pattern and has deeptemper at the point. The forging grain is tight itame-hada no opening, no blister and no forging flaws at all at all. There is no bend, no crack and cutting edge issharp. The scabbardis metalscabbard, nodents,no bendandingood condition. Thehandle is tight fit, tsuka-ito wrapping is no cut, no looseand ingood condition.Lock mechanism works fine. Tsuba andseppa are matches number 6 stamped. I came with blue/brown company grade sword tassel. no cut, no fade and in excellent condition. It measures 26+7/8\" tip to the guard, 25+3/4\" cutting edge,1+3/16\" width,6.5 mmthickness at the notch and39+1/2\" inmountings. Shipping is $25 priority in U.S.Payment due with in 3 days sale end.



Japanese WWll Army officer\'s sword in mountings Gendaito \"Kanezumi\", tassel:
$1600.00

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