Meiji Era Enlisted Sword

[Kiipu]

Has anyone seen an example of this sword before?  Japanese records indicate at least 7,000 were in use.  It is not discussed or depicted in any of the guntō books to date.

 

[Bruce Pennington]

I have only seen (via pictures) one Meiji era Type 8, ever, but it was like the ones seen in Dawson's book, pages 30-31.  He has a close one, thought to be custom made on pages 40-41, but there are differences.  Of course, all Type 8s, 19s, and Kyugunto had multitudinous variations, so it is possible Dawson's is simply a shop variation of this model.

 

But the short answer is - no haven't ever seen one.  Interesting bit of history there!

[Babu]

I saw the blade from one adapted into a sword stick due to its relative straightness.

I guess many were.

[Stegel]

Closest i've seen is this type19, still not the same specs as you show.

[Bruce Pennington]

By Golly Thomas!!! I think Peter Bleed just found one!!!

On this NMB THREAD

[Kiipu]

On 8/20/2020 at 7:14 PM, Stegel said:

Closest I've seen is this Type 19, still not the same specs as you show.

 

I think the kanji character inside the logo is 田.

[lonely panet]

On 9/11/2020 at 5:30 AM, Bruce Pennington said:

By Golly Thomas!!! I think Peter Bleed just found one!!!

On this NMB THREAD

Im preatty sure i mentioned this model too you in the past