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Thanks for info Paul !

Did the follow-up pictures help any?

Here are a few more photos my friend sent of the wakizashi with better shots of the nakago.

Thanks so much for the replies. Much appreciated. I’ll see if I can get a picture of the tang.

Hello again. I got some help here a few months back identifying the sword my father brought back from WWII and told a friend about it. His father was a Marine during the war and sent me a couple of pictures of 2 swords his father picked up on Saipan. He was curious to know something about them. Any help appreciated. Thanks, Tom

Thanks Chris. I'm not familiar with the various time periods. I did find the below. Which ones would you be referring to? early Koto 初古刀 938 ~ 1319, middle Koto 中古刀 1319 ~ 1460, late Koto 末古刀 1460 ~ 1596, Keigen-Shinto 慶元新刀 1596 ~ 1624, Kanei-Shinto 寛永新刀 1624 ~ 1658, Kambun-Shinto 寛文新刀 1658 ~ 1684, Genroku-Shinto 元禄新刀 1684 ~ 1764, early Shinshinto 初新々刀 1764 ~ 1818, middle Shinshinto 中新々刀 1818 ~ 1854, late Shinshinto 末新々刀 1854 ~ 1868, Gendaito 現代刀 1868 ~ today.

Here's 2 more pictures, a little lighter

I decided not to take the Habaki off. It didn't want to come off easily and there seems to be a split in it - I just moved it back as far as it would go. See the picture. Pictures of the blade are the same, just different sizes.

No, I haven't taken that off. I'll do it after work and take a picture

Here's a picture with most of it in the shot

Taking decent photos is difficult. The sun, shadows, reflections, etc. Hope these will suffice. You can see where I was tapping on the nakago to drive out the peg, not realizing the hole was not lined up. Grrr...

I took it out on the back deck and took some shots. More in a bit

That's some great photo work Chris. Here's mine again, enhanced a bit.

Thanks, it's gone. I took the pictures right after I got the tsuka off, cleaned the blade afterwards. More pics coming