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Thank you very much. This is exactly what I was looking for... Dan

Many thanx, this is Interesting ! Do you think should be logic consider a cinese translation of "Haishou" as "received" ? "received 8 december" ( perhaps a kind of internal registration ?) Oops... It is possible I fail to submit my question. I know what it's mean, but I'm interested to know the chinese/Japanese translation (as 拜詔 = haishō) Many thanx again

Thanx for answer, but Emura made swords in Okayama prison from 1940 to 1945 so it's simply impossible this blade was dated "1879". Then, I don't think that it's "Meiji", and kanji for "nen" is missing, so I read : Era (I don't understand, but it is sure it is not "Meiji"...) not year ( no numbers and no kanji for "nen") 10 2 gatsu ( month, 12° ) 8 Hi ( day, 8° ) The problem is that in this way it seems not to have any sense... The "era" (if it is) first kanji seems to be ("Hai") and the second kanji seems to be "sho" (as in SHO-wa)... But what (or "when") is this "Haisho" ? and why the "nen" is missing ?

Uhm... Is it normal that serial (635) on nakago ?

Good morning guys ! Is there someone who can help me to solve these kanji traslations ? Question 1 : This is the mei of an Emura blade. I see "juni gatsu - hachi hi", but I can't understand nothing about the year. Question 2 : This is the inscription on the blade of mikasa tanto made by Hideaki. I know this is the conventional phrase of Togo before the Tsushima battle... But what is the exactly translation (english and Japanese) ? Manymany thanks for your help. Dan

Hello Johnny... I don't understand a little thing about these ... But these officers' cavalry swords, at the beginning, was enacted as "dress/parade swords" (normally plated and not edged but sometimes adapted as "combat swords" with edged blades) or what else ? Many thanks. Dan

Tank you very much to all.. Nr. 132106 is the effective number of the patent that should being released to Iida in 13 sept. 1939.

hello friends... Today I have two questions for you. Can you help me to find some infos about Iida Kunitaro and his saya system lock ? Can you Help me to translate the kanji on image 2 and 3 ? The Iida system lock : The Kanji outside the metal cap : The kanji inside the metal cap : Many thanks to all.

Thanks to all for answer, but I have some specific questions in my mind and now I want to share them with you... 1) From my (scarce) informations, the parade saber knot seems to be enacted with the edict 393 of the 20 july 1900 (with Meiji, 33 IJN Uniform minor fix) and it has gold round cord, gold slider and knot, both with red zig zag of rising sun. Question : The only admiral knot I've seen (few days ago) seems to have a silver (not gold) knot, with red zig zag. Is it a possible material's degradation ? 2) Fueller and Gregory Book explain that was a new formality in 1914 and the changes for Kyu Gunto (versus the previous 1896 regulation about "informal" tassels) for Navy Officers was: "PLAIN cord (as Army tassels after 1912), GOLD slider (without red zig zag ?) and red base. The knot is LARGER than the naval saber knot". Well, I've never seen a naval sword tassel as described above (with plain gold cord and knot larger than the naval saber knot), but I've seen (i.e. Ohmura site) an informal tassel substantially identical to parade saber version (also Red Zig Zag slider) but it sems to have a GOLD (or silver ?) base and it seems to be smaller than the naval parade knot. Question : Is there anyone which has precise informations about 1914 Navy regulation (including, if possible, NCO's tassels)? NavyKyu Gunto informal knot : http://ohmura-study.net/988.html Navy commander saber knot : http://ohmura-study.net/930.html Thanks again. Dan PS. Also in the image posted by Thomas, all tassels seems to be identical

Hello. Is there someone who can help me to find some documentation about the formalities of swords knots of Imperial Japanese Navy before 1937 (just for Navy Kyu Guntò and Navy Parade Saber )? I'm sorry, but this kind of informations seems to be very scarce.... Thanks to all.