Donzi1973 Posted September 4, 2023 Report Posted September 4, 2023 Why did some Japanese swords mismatched or married together I have an navy and Army sword , with old hardware and has an family crest on the handle and on the scabbard, is simari and Navy 1 Quote
Bruce Pennington Posted September 5, 2023 Report Posted September 5, 2023 Hi Donny! Can you give us a look at the nakago (tang)? There are a couple of options to answer your question. 1. Army blade came out of Japan after the war without a saya (scabbard), and a collector found a saya to fit it. 2. The single haikan (hanger ring) is indicative of a late-war navy rig. Some people speculate that some swords got pieced together with whatever could be scavenged in the last stage of the war. I tend to not buy this version, but who can know. The civil tsuba (handguard) MAY indicate there is an older family blade in there. Seeing the nakago could be informative. Quote
vajo Posted September 5, 2023 Report Posted September 5, 2023 Tsuba is heianjo with famous mon. The boars eye seppa didn't fit to the tsuba. It looks assembled together. 1 Quote
Guest Simon R Posted September 6, 2023 Report Posted September 6, 2023 Why on earth would it have a slot for a kozuka??? Quote
Bruce Pennington Posted September 6, 2023 Report Posted September 6, 2023 On 9/6/2023 at 4:07 AM, SRDRowson said: Why on earth would it have a slot for a kozuka??? Expand Exactly!!! The saya, alone, puzzles me greatly. If it were a post-war bitser, and a guy had grabbed a civil saya and put navy hardware on it, why would he have cut a slot for the kozuka in the koiguchi? only then, to fill it with a patch of metal??? On the other hand, if it were a legit late-war kaigunto saya, and they used a civil saya, why wouldn't they have just put a normal koiguchi on it? The Navy koiguchi cut for a kozuka is the real puzzlement. Quote
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