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Seven Lives sword forge （workshop)

The guy who sell that sword asked me about 正永 and 七生刀鍛錬道場 as well. Here is what I found out for him, 正永 Masunaga, whose real name is 伊藤岸永 Ito Kishinaga, was a 授命刀匠 work for both the army and navy and lived near the 湊川神社 Minatogawa Shrine. He used 正清 Masaaki mei when he made naval orders at Minatogawa Shrine. The 七生刀鍛煉道場 is a sword forging workshop near Minatogawa Shrine, where the 授命刀匠 are allowed to make special-order swords in their spare time. The Mei he used in the 七生刀鍛煉道場 is 正永 Masunaga.

Type 30 bayonet with red bean paint on both handle&scabbard

One more white cloth wrapped scabbard.

I was trying to search 耕觀 first, but nothing came up, so I decided to try the reverse and see what it would be.かんぱい！

Found 觀耕台(farming observe platform） https://www.meet99.com/jingdian-xiannongtan-36495.html

@Stegel Ernie What do you think about this scabbard?Paint or wrapped with white cloth?

Not sure if that scabbard was painted white or wrapped with the white cloth

It looks like Guadalcanal, Okinawa, 3RD Bm, and other stuff.

Some photos will help, but from what you describe, both blades in Type 94 and Type 98 don't sound like Zohei-to.

警視廳 Metropolitan Police Department mark

This ons has "示“mark and 警視廳 Metropolitan Police Department mark。

@Shamsy Steve Found a red bean paint Type 30 scabbard.

Looks like 村田刀 to me

Type 19 from grey blanket

Any photos?

The "8" mark maybe from Hiroshima Arsenal

Thanks Thomas!

Anyone know about this mark?

@Bruce Pennington Bruce I'm afraid there is no "shop logo" for 川越製造所 Kawagoe Factory. It is not a civilian contractor shop for the Army, but the factory owned and operated by IJA locate in 埼玉県上福岡市 Saitama Prefecture Kamifukuoka city. https://senseki-kikou.net/?p=9774&amp=1

That ワ mark could be from 川越製造所 Kawagoe factory under 東京第一陸軍造兵廠 Tokyo first arsenal.

Saw this 吉 mark on a Navy dirk, any idea what sword shop might be? @Kiipu

Chinese collectors buy Japanese and Chinese swords from all over the world. Many type 95 NCO swords, Mantetsu, and Yasukuni swords went to China, that's one of the reasons the price of those swords keep going up. They only buy and don't sell. Nowadays many Chinese(not all of course) don't like people from other countries, especially Americans, they think China and Russia are the greatest. Most collectors don't like to share their knowledge with others. There are only very few sword books written by Chinese, the collectors in China check Ohmura's website, and use Dawson&Fuller's book(Pirate Chinese version)also Japanese sword books for reference.

Agree!

Thomas Can you point out where this info came from? Do you have the full sheet? Thanks