Mantetsu help

[Stephen]

I have every thing except below the date, if you care to hep ill be very grateful.

 

[Wim V]

Stephen,

 

I believe this is the kanji: 根本博中将佩刀.  I am not 100% sure about the correct reading however, maybe someone with better knowledge of Japanese could add.

 

But it seems to be a personal inscription to Mr Nemoto Hiroshi.  Wikipedia tells me this was a lieutenant general who lived from 1891 until 1966.  Maybe the inscription can roughly be translated as "lieutenant general Nemoto Hiroshi carried this sword"?

[Stephen]

Thank you Wim...looking forward to confirmation.

[Wim V]

After some extra searching, I think the reading is: "Nemoto Hiroshi Chūjō Haitō"

[Stephen]

Ok 20 min of Google Chūjō Haitō has me even more lost...lol sorry

[Bruce Pennington]

Thanks Wim and Stephen! I tried this in the JP translator and came up with: "Hiroshi Nemoto Lt Gen carrying sword"

[SteveM]

Wim's reading and translation (and Bruce's verification) are correct. 

If you've checked out the Wikipedia entry for Hiroshi Nemoto, you've already got all the basic info. 

 

I would probably translate 佩刀 (haitō) as "sword" and leave it at that. 

Chūjō just means "lieutenant general" as above, so googling that phrase alone won't pull up anything useful.

[Stephen]

Thanks to all.

Its being judged as fake. See military forum

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[Bruce Pennington]

  On 2/11/2020 at 11:36 PM, Stephen said:

Thanks to all.

Its being judged as fake. See military forum

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Or rather as gimei.