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@Scogg @Kiipu Yes,it has matching nuimber 80849,but Dave did'nt post any photos of ser#

Dave What's the ser# of your nco?

Shay Do you have more photos of thr blade? Thanks

Takeuchi (竹内) is a Japanese surname. Although the name literally means “inside bamboo,” here it is simply used as a family name. 軍刀報國第四一五號 竹內第二號 Military Sword for the Nation No. 415, Takeuchi No. 2 may indicate that this is the 415th case in the ‘Military Sword for the Nation’ movement and the second sword donated by the Takeuchi sword shop?

The “Military Sword for the Nation” Movement (Japanese: 軍刀報国 / Guntō Hōkoku) was a wartime mobilization campaign in Japan during the late 1930s and early 1940s. It encouraged civilians, organizations, and local communities to donate money or materials to produce military swords or sale the blade to army for officers use.

Without the 堂 It’s hard to say if it was from Hyakuren do. I notice the tang was re shaped.

Also note the term 「調製」 in the advertisement, which represents “Adjusting”.

高橋兼行 (Takahashi Kaneyuki ). The hot stamp百鍊（Hyakuren/Hundred-Fold Forged)belonged to 百鍊堂刀劍店 (Hyakuren-dō Tōkenten). This shop was a designated supplier for 豐橋陸軍預備士官學校 ( Toyohashi Army Reserve Officer School).

Steve, thank you for your reply. This is exactly what I wanted to point out: the “調之” ( adjusted it）in the mei of that earlier sword has the same meaning as the “調製” (adjusted) from Okada Guntō Shop on this wood liner. That sword’s mei should read “石德 調之” (Ishitoku adjusted it), rather than interpreting “石德調之” as if Ishitoku Shigeyoki were the full name of the swordsmith.

Indeed They were located in 東京赤坂

John That’s possible. However, the IJN was very fond of applying black paint to bayonet scabbards, metal parts, and even the blades themselves. Perhaps the black paint on the assembly numbers was simply the same type of paint they commonly liked to use. Who knows? 😊

@Kiipu @Bruce Pennington @IJASWORDS Please take a look at and refer to the inscription on this wood liner: “岡田軍刀店調製.” Here, 調製 likely refers to adjusting or modifying a client-provided blade/fittings so that they fit properly. It carries a meaning similar to 調之, essentially meaning “adjusted/adapted for this.”

Thanks

Hey Grey I will take this book "Gendaito Made at the Minatogawa"

Sam Thank you for your work!

Type 25

庚午秋 畫於 静修齋 Painted in the autumn 1930 at Studio of Quiet Cultivation 林肇基 Lin Zhao Ji(Painter) Lin Zhaoji Former Deputy Director, Cultural and Educational Affairs Office of the Military Control Commission of PRC. Lin Zhaoji was a native of Gutian County. He was born in 1899 (the 25th year of the Guangxu reign of the Qing dynasty) in Shanyang Village, Gutian. After the establishment of the Military Control Commission in June 1949, he served as Deputy Director of its Cultural and Educational Affairs Office. He passed away from illness in Beijing in 1962 at the age of 63.

Variant of “検” or “𢮦”: Based on its structure (扌 + 㑒), this character is often treated in dictionaries as a variant of “檢” (simplified to “検” in modern Japanese) or “撿” (rare in Japanese, more common in Chinese). Some large databases, such as Kanji Jitenon, list it as a glyph variant of “撿”. It definitely should be 検/檢 for inspected.

Yes,It means inspected.

These swords were not made in Manchuria. If any connection to China must be made, it is that in 1906 the Suya shop exported 900 swords to China（清國Qing Empire) The attached drawing indicates that they are similar to the Type 25/32.

It’s 撿, but it should be 檢 — stamped the wrong character, like this one

It’s a 偽軍刀 (a sword for the puppet army) that was made in China during World War II.

正真甲伏鍛 中根行宗 作 Nakane Yukimune

Here you go

It was made by 月山貞一 SADAKAZU (貞一), Genji (元治, 1864-1865), Settsu – “Gassan Unryūshi Sadakazu” (月山雲龍子貞一), “Naniwa ni oite Kinpō-jōhen Gassan Sadakazu kore o tsukuru” (於浪花金宝城辺月山貞一造之), “Gassan Sadakazu” (月山貞一), “Gassan Hayato Minamoto Sadakazu tsukuru”(月山隼人源貞一造), “Naniwa-jū Gassan Unryūshi Minamoto Sadakazu” (浪華住月山雲龍子源貞一), “Naniwa-jū Gassan Yagorō Sadakazu seitan hori-dōsaku” (浪華住月山弥五 郎貞一精鍛彫同作, “carefully forged and carvings engraved by Gassan Yagorō Sadakazu from Naniwa”), “Dainippon Gassan Sadakazu horimono-dōsaku” (大日本月山貞一彫物同作), real name Gassan Yagorō (月山弥五郎), he was born in the second month of Tenpō seven (天保, 1836) in the village of Sugoshi (須越) in Ōmi´s Inugami district (犬上), he was adopted by Gassan Sadayoshi (貞吉) at the age of seven and was appointed teishitsu-gigei´in (帝室技芸員) in Meiji 39 (明治, 1906), this rank was about the predecessor of the modern ningen-kokuhō and Sadakazu was besides of Miyamoto Kanenori (宮本包則) the only swordsmith who held this important rank, his gō were Kōkensai (光顕斎), Unryūshi (雲龍子), and Suiyūshi (水勇子), he died on July 11th 1918 at the age of 84, we know dated blades from the third year of Kaei (嘉永, 1850) – he was 15 years old at that time – until his year of death in 1918, that means he was about 70 years active as a swordsmith, he mastered all traditions and is considered together with Honjō Yoshitane (本荘義胤) and Kurihara Nobuhide (栗原信秀) as the greatest horimono artists of the bakumatsu and early gendaitō era, he also played an important role in the transmission of the craft of sword forging to the later gendaitō smiths, so some count Suishinshi Masahide as founder, and Gassan Sadakazu als last great master of the shinshintō, his blades have a rather long nagasa, a shallow sori, a wide mihaba, and a chū or an ō-kissaki, that means altogether a magnificent shape, but also some sugata in the style of the early Muromachi period are known, blades made during the Keiō era (慶応, 1865-1868) are especially large, he made many copies of kotō works and worked after the ban on wearing swords also for the military where more narrow and shorter blades were in demand, he forged the ayasugu-hada of the Gassan school, a masame of the Yamato tradition, or also a mokume, ko-mokume, or itame, the hamon is a beautiful chōji-midare in nioi-deki with a narrow yakihaba and long ashi in the style of the Ōei-Bizen school (応永備前), a ko-chōji-midare in ko-nie-deki, a chū-suguha-hotsure in the style of the Yamashiro tradition, or a gunome-midare with thick nie and nioi and plentiful hataraki in the style of the Sōshū tradition, the bōshi is maru, midare-komi or yakitsume, various horimono are known, for example dragons, dragon and a plum tree, ken-maki-ryū, waterfall, Fudō-Myōō, bonji and many more, all done very elaborate and skilful, some remind of horimono of Ikkanshi Tadatsuna (一竿子忠綱), his tangs are long and carefully finished, they have a kurijiri and sujikaiyasurime with keshō, during the Keiō and Meiji eras he signed with a characteristical koku´in, in Taishō five (1916) he forged a tachi on the occasion of the enthronement of emperor Yoshihito (嘉仁, 1879-1926), jōjō-saku。