Japanese Translation Please

[Bonnie Adair]

[Grey Doffin]

Emura Saku.

Grey

[Stephen]

3 hours ago, Bonnie Adair said:

If you own please share photos of the blade. 

[Bonnie Adair]

I there anything you can share with me about the origin, year, materials of the sheath? It appears to be wood inside and some type of animal skin. Please embellish!

[Stephen]

The correct way to show tang blade up

 

https://www.Japanese...dindex.com/emura.htm

 

If you post in military forum you'll see what the mounts are called  now. Better known as Marine mounts.

 

The skin is same* or known as Ray skin. 

 I sent you a PM

[Brian]

Sheath is wood and laquer. Handle/Tsuka is wood core, wrapped in rayskin and a wrap over it, laquered.
Mid war likely, maybe at a guess around 1944.
He's a respected mid level Gendaito maker, so this would be considered a decent wartime sword, fully traditionally made. You won't find much more info than is presented in the link above. The fittings are standard wartime and those style ones usually contain decent swords. It's not top class, but it is very good, and he's a popular smith. Nice find.

[Bruce Pennington]

The fittings have no official title.  This model was an attempt to make a sword that would be more durable in the field, and cost a bit less, as officers were required to by their own swords.  They used a "variance" loophole in the Type 98 Emperor edict authorization, as a "contingency variance."  "Type 3" is the most common collector title.  "Marine Landing Sword" is quite common, too, although there has never been evidence of "marines" carrying this sword, as it was an Army sword, and as of WWII, there were no Japanese Marines.  The SNLF, Special Naval Landing Forces were Navy forces trained to perform as Marines would in combat, but they carried Navy swords.

 

The Rinji seishiki, or contingency model, was designed in 1938, and released in 1940, though they never caught on in popularity until the last 3 years of the war.

 

Sources:

Unveiling the Rinji-seishiki, 1940

Deflating the myth of the "Type 3"

[Stephen]

They come in, ask questions with no thanks, then poof makes like Keyser Söze