Emblem on Mantetsu saya

[Stephen]

ok he swears he had it for 25 years admits painting saya red. emblems are org tho. no tsuba

sorry for crappy pix i had to save from messenger crop increase rotate

 

 

   

[PNSSHOGUN]

Perhaps a gift sword from a company to a senior officer.

[vajo]

Looks like a IJA service badge.

[BANGBANGSAN]

From right to left ,It says 銃劍館(Guns& Swords Shop/House）。

[Stephen]

Trystan provided in military forum.

 

From right to left ,It says 銃劍館(Guns& Swords Shop/House）。

[Brian]

I was thinking it has to be a retailers/shop logo. Thanks Trystan.

[Bazza]

NO WAY!!!

 

BaZZa.

[Nobody]

銃劍道 – Jukendo (Japanese martial art of bayonet fighting)

[vajo]

 

Jukenjitsu commemoration badge.

 

Old movie on youtube. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv7BAhoUMB8

[Brian]

Moriyama san has it, along with Chris.
So I suppose a soldier added it himself?

[Stephen]

Another emblem on other side as well

 

Ok i went to military forum and now its here. Ok i guess

[Brian]

Merged the 2 topics. Will move to military once the translating is done.

[Kai-Gunto]

The same on the tsuka is gone and the owner painted it red there. Some “jewelry” was added.

The badges on saya looks not Japanese made and added by him again. Fittings on saya looks to crappy to match the mantetsu blade.

But yes blade is legit.

[Brian]

Logic says if the owner was handy enough to inset his jukendo badge into his saya, then he did the same with whatever other medallion he got, which is the other one.
Someone will recognize the logo. 2 Birds facing each other, rising sun...mt Fuji?...

[vajo]

For that scond, could it be a shinto shrine badge what visitors can buy as souvenir?

[Nobody]

I just found the following page.

FYI: http://www.imperialjapanmedalsandbadges.com/bayonet.html

[Stephen]

as reported current owner only painted the saya and been in family basement for twenty five years. badges as found. so likely GI painted same.

 

thank you Koichi san for that find. hai domo!

[Bruce Pennington]

Logic says if the owner was handy enough to inset his jukendo badge into his saya, then he did the same with whatever other medallion he got, which is the other one.

Someone will recognize the logo. 2 Birds facing each other, rising sun...mt Fuji?...

Brian, by "owner" do you mean the one in 1941 or 1995?

 

This stuff drives me nuts when the work is so good, you don't know if it was period or post-war. It's like the gold-painted gunto and the green-blotchy saya. My gut feel is that it's just all post-war. If this guy (1995) was good enough to remove and replace the ito and curve the badges just right, then it could all be post-war mod. There are some really crafty guys out and about. But then, John's idea of a commemorative gift within a unit has always teased my mind. Modern day military do such things. I would love to find out if WWII military did so as well.

Another mystery. But pretty garish, so I'd lean toward all of it being the 1995 guy.

 

At any rate - it's a number I didn't have! Thanks Stephen for an interesting gunto discussion!