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Bruce
Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. here are the photos you asked for.
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Thanks! This sword highlights the importance of not rushing to label swords as fakes. If it weren't for the Java inscription on the nakago, everyone would have immediately called this a Chinese fake!
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Bruce so am I right in assuming it is a war time machine manufacture or is there a history here I should look into? it certainly feels heavy and I'm not seeing an obvious hamon on the Java blade.
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again two pictures but this time the late war Gunto
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again two pictures of the Java sword
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Two pictures here. both the Java sword.
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The top one of these two is the Sumaran Java sword. The bottom one looks exactly like the example of the 1944 Shin Gunto on the military sword page of the www.japaneseworldindex.com/real/old.htm. But it has a really obvious Hamon so I'm thinking a gendaito blade. I haven't been anble to get the two screws out so a work in progress.
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Fujiwara Rai Kunifusa
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Fujiwara Rai Kunifusa
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Bishu Osafune Bishu
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Bishu Osafune
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Hizen again
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Hizen ....
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ok, I'm attaching in a sequence of posts more pictures of the complete swords. First up is the three older blades, closest to further away, - Hizen-no-kuni Saga-ju Fujiwara Yoshihiro, -Bishu Osafune, - Fujiwara Rai Kunifusa
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Thank you Steve Very excited if it dates to August 1781. The blade is 32 and 3/4'' and 26'' to the hilt/hand guard. Lovely to hold and a very active hamon. But also very clearly a WW2 handle and scabbard etc otherwise. One last challenge for you is the picture below. I suspect a machine made sword in that the weight and feel are very different to the last two. That said I'm a novice. With the last sword, when you say feudal Japan, Bishu Osafune, do you have any idea of age? suppose you need to see the blade? Thank you again for your help.
