rickyfig4
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any leads? I only say this artist because it was mentioned inside the scabbard.
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Its my first Katana, so spending the extra money to have it professionally polished wouldn't be a problem fro me. Even if its not financially smart, its my first and carries more meaning to me. I do wonder though after the polish how much it would be to get it professionally inspected to verify the smith. Thank you for the help everyone, I was hoping someone on here was familiar with the smiths work and could see if I was in the right direction
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the writing on the scabbard
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I have a Japanese WWII army/tank crew katana with a 1550 era made blade o-suriage. The scabbard is leather covered and has some writing under the leather strap, with a tremendous amount of help i was able to identify that it states the maker is 備前助 or 備州長船助宗作 bishū osafune sukemune saku (SUK279) Seller stated "its Shinogi-zukuri shape, the temper line is wavy gunome temper pattern through out the blade and has deep temper at the point. The forging grain is itame-hada. it measures 23+3/8" cutting edge, 1+1/16" width, 5mm thickness at the notch and 34+3/4" in mountings." Can someone identify that it is indeed from this smith or maybe someone else
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if it was an army Sergeant, where they known for carrying a scabbard like this with a shortened blade? it measures 23+3/8" cutting edge and 34+3/4" in mountings. Also I want to say thank you for every ones help! I feel like the more research I do on this Shin-Gunto the more down the rabbit hole I go, and the more I have questions about stuff
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and some of the blade
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in coming pictures!
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Ill just look as close as possible to army ranks then, all of the officer ranks have that specific kanji identified and only 1 enlisted ranks has it. So i'm guessing its in the officers then. On another note i did see the kanji for water on the second line, thats why i thought navy.
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Can anyone take a guess at what the rank could say, I can try to put up better pictures tomorrow. It would answer if it was a navy or army personnel. Ive tried looking over and over at the ranks and without one more kanji its hard to put a finger on it. all the way to to the right.
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thanks everyone! I will try to put the blade up tomorrow to see if anyone can verify if it is a Sukemune blade
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is there anyone i can send the bade in to get it verified?
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it is not signed, it could have been before but the sword was shortened at some point.
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thank you sooo much! would wakayama be where the scabbard/katana was made or where the owner was from?
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I have a Japanese WWII army/tank crew katana with a 1550 era made blade o-suriage. The scabbard is leather covered and has some writing under the leather strap that i'm having a super hard time identifying. any help would be appreciated.
