Murata To

[BIG]

Hi all,

 

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http://ohmura-study.net/911.html

 

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[Drago]

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing!

 

You don't see many muratato for sale - is that because they are considered non-traditional like showa swords and are illegal in Japan?

[BIG]

Hi Tobias,

 

nice Dealer...

 

http://www.setocut.co.jp/docs/swords/e_ogatatouken2.html

 

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[Brian]

Zinc bladed reproductions for display. No bearing on the question really.

 

Brian

[BIG]

Tobias and Brian,

 

If there is no original on market, this is imo an alternative....

 

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[Geraint]

Not sure that I follow you Peter.  Surely the distinguishing feature of Murata-to is the method and material from which they are forged, how do zinc alloy blades come into this?

 

All the best.

[Johnny Barracuda]

I concur, what is the point?

 

Furthermore, whatever the seller calls them, those a replica army shin gunto. If there are two suspension mounts on an army shin gunto, it is not a murata to, it is a type 94 shin gunto from 1934 (first type, later simplified with a single suspension mount in 1938, the well known type 98). At the time of General Murata (1890s), the relevant mounting was a kyu gunto mounting. The shin gunto was authorised 40 years later.

 

The swords could have been remounted as shin gunto later, but what makes a murata to is the very specific, and non-traditional, way the blade was made. Therefore, selling replica type 94 shin gunto as replica murata to is irrelevant and wrong.

 

And yes, murato to are illegal in Japan.

[BIG]

Seems I am on the dark ( Zinc ) side of the Force.....

 

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