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Attention Mantetsu Owners: A Survey
Kiipu replied to Bruce Pennington's topic in Military Swords of Japan
Ohmura thinks the blades marked as 満鐵鍛造之 were from the Nan-Man Army Arsenal 南滿陸軍造兵廠 while the blades marked as 興南一誠 were from the Sword Factory of Dairen Railway Workshop, South Manchuria Railway Co., Ltd., 南満洲鉄道株式会社大連鉄道工場刀剣製作所. So your question appears correct in that they coexisted. http://ohmura-study.net/222.html -
Attention Mantetsu Owners: A Survey
Kiipu replied to Bruce Pennington's topic in Military Swords of Japan
South Manchurian Arsenal 南滿陸軍造兵廠 Wen-kung-t'un, 10 miles north of Mukden. Equipment for Manufacturing Sabres Air Hammer = 2 Polishing Machine = 15 Drilling Machine = 3 Gas Furnace = 7 Air Compressor = 1 Press = 11 Ventilator = 2 Lathe = 1 Total = 42 The information above is coming from a 1946 American intelligence report. No further information is available on sword production. -
堂 -dō = temple, shrine; shop, store. The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary, 1997.
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Possibly shows up in the index below. Seki Magoroku Swords Co./Seki no Magoroku Tokensho (Seki) http://www.jp-sword.com/files/temp/shokomeikan.htm
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Naohiro 直弘 stamp. http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/5999-arsenal-stamps/page-2?do=findComment&comment=58285 Stamp identified four pages later. http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/5999-arsenal-stamps/page-6?do=findComment&comment=109364 In my opinion, this stamp has been struck three times!
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Attention Mantetsu Owners: A Survey
Kiipu replied to Bruce Pennington's topic in Military Swords of Japan
Bruce, when time permits, what is the nakago mune serial number for this combination SMR logo and Koa-Isshin 興亞一心 marked nakago? http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/26165-attention-mantetsu-owners-a-survey/page-9?do=findComment&comment=302258 Edit: Answered my own question. It has no nakago mune serial number. http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/26165-attention-mantetsu-owners-a-survey/page-4?do=findComment&comment=274960 -
The link in the quoted post above is broken so use the one below. Iwami Yoshikoyo Gendaito Post #1 http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/6628-iwami-yoshikoyo-gendaito/ Stamped on the nakago mune twice is 江. This is an Imperial Japanese Army inspection mark used by the Matsue Supervisory Unit of Kokura Army Arsenal 小倉陸軍造兵廠松江監督班. 江 = e
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Not likely as the 松 inspection mark was used by the Ōsaka Supervisory Unit 大阪監督班 of Kokura Army Arsenal 小倉陸軍造兵廠.
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Sorry, we are not talking about the same thing. The 山 inspection mark is just an "arsenal inspector organization." 山 = Matsuyama Branch Office 松山出張所 of Kokura Army Arsenal 小倉陸軍造兵廠. Possibly, Fuller san is referring to the company mentioned in the thread below? Koshirae Fitters Stamping Blades http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/28883-koshirae-fitters-stamping-blades/?do=findComment&comment=292806
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Apparently, the old character above and to the left is not displaying on some computer devices. The character can be seen at the link below. It is in the Japanese section listed under kyūjitai. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/社
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Looks like this stamp is all sorted out now. As regards the first character, it appears to be another one of those old characters. A real stinker trying to get them to display properly too. If you cut and paste it, the character frequently defaults to the new one! Hopefully everyone can see it below but if not follow the link. 直 = 直 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/直
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A Japanese army inspection mark used by the Kumamoto Supervisory Unit 熊本監督班 of Kokura Army Arsenal 小倉陸軍造兵廠. 熊 = kuma http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/5999-arsenal-stamps/page-4?do=findComment&comment=85298
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The 社 or 社 [sHA] was an Imperial Japanese Army inspection stamp for use by each civilian/private factory 各民間工場. Any private factory working on army contracts could use this inspection stamp. Either the old style or the new style character can be found stamped on parts. 社 = 社
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Attention Mantetsu Owners: A Survey
Kiipu replied to Bruce Pennington's topic in Military Swords of Japan
Post #58 Third blade from the left. Could (E) エ367 春 actually be (YU) ユ367 春? http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/26165-attention-mantetsu-owners-a-survey/page-2?do=findComment&comment=271158 -
Inspection mark used by private companies under army supervision. Used during the 1941 to 1945 timeframe. The character 社 translates as firm, company, or office. 社 = SHA http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/5999-arsenal-stamps/page-9?do=findComment&comment=198986 http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/28567-sha-stamp-significance/
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関・軍 用 日 本 刀 Syōwa-tō of Seki http://ohmura-study.net/211.html
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Show us Your Commemoration/Presentation Swords
Kiipu replied to Bruce Pennington's topic in Military Swords of Japan
The above quote is from http://jtweymo.angelfire.com/KIRAKURYU_MOKUROKU.html. Daimyōjin 大明神 is a title for a Shinto god and not a location. Below are some English language links to get you started. 多賀 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taga-taisha 大明神 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myōjin -
Show us Your Commemoration/Presentation Swords
Kiipu replied to Bruce Pennington's topic in Military Swords of Japan
夛賀大明神 Taga Daimyōjin 夛 = 多 Use this for Internet searching 多賀大明神. https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/多賀大社 -
Bibliography of Modern Edged Weapons, 1868-1945
Kiipu replied to Kiipu's topic in Military Swords of Japan
Thanks for the comment. Nice collection of F&G books! Those four books starting from the right are uncommon in the United States. The last two were widely distributed over here. Sorry to say the 1985 book, The Oshigata Book, did not make the list as it fell outside the 1868 to 1945 time frame. -
Bibliography of Modern Edged Weapons, 1868-1945
Kiipu replied to Kiipu's topic in Military Swords of Japan
Nōshū Nihontō tanrensho 濃州日本刀鍛錬所. Nōshū Seki den: Nihontō ni tsuite 濃州関伝: 日本刀に就て. Kabushiki kaisha nōshū Nihontō tanrensho 株式會社濃州日本刀鍛錬所, 1939. http://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1097527 -
Looking at the stamp with a magnifying glass, it looks like a Tenshozan stamp. Compare it to this stamp.
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Two KaiGunto for review #sword 2 - Double ashi http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/29929-two-kaigunto-for-review/ The second sword has a Toyokawa Naval Arsenal 豊川海軍工廠 logo. Toyokawa Naval Arsenal was officially opened in December 1939. On 1945-08-07, the arsenal was bombed and a week later all production came to an end with the surrender. The reason for posting is that I have been unable to locate this stamp in this thread. Edit: Looking at the stamp with a magnifying glass, it appears to be a Tenshozan stamp. There is another anchor mark but it has a different meaning and the discussion can be found in the War Relics thread below. http://www.warrelics.eu/forum/f216/showa-dept-interior-stamp-662590-post1693771/#post1693771
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#sword 2 - Double ashi The second sword appears to have a Toyokawa Naval Arsenal 豊川海軍工廠 logo. Toyokawa Naval Arsenal was officially opened in December 1939. Not sure if this stamp appears in the Arsenal Stamps thread or not.