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Grey Doffin Grand Master

Grey Doffin

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I just bought an Army Shin-Gunto katana with an unusual leather patch attached to the suspension ring. The patch is about as big as a fingernail and has inscribed on it what could be the Kanji chu or naka, above the letter W. Do any of you know the significance of this?

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Bugyotsuji Grand Master

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Just a guess.

 

He was called Nakanishi, but so were a lot of other soldiers or officers. Their clothing and equipment were probably shipped somewhere. He wrote the first part of his name on the home-made baggage tag as Naka-, and the nishi (west) part he wrote in Roman letters, to help him find it more quickly.

 

Other possibility that he was a Chusa 中佐or lieutenant Colonel, and his name was Wakabayashi or something beginning with W...

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