Type 98 by Kawashima Tadayoshi

[Ohman]

[Bruce Pennington]

Not often you see an Army gunto with that flat ito style (there's a name for that).  Also, the mon is one I haven't seen.  Have you gotten it identified?

[dwmc]

Beautiful sword Oliver. Where in Idaho are you located? Would love to see your sword in person. Very nice Shin Gunto indeed...

 

I'm in the Boise area,

 

Dave M.

[John C]

 

 

 

8 hours ago, Bruce Pennington said:

Also, the mon is one I haven't seen.

 

Bruce: I think the mon is the same one as the thread above, though I haven't looked it up yet.

 

John C.

[Ohman]

9 hours ago, Bruce Pennington said:

Not often you see an Army gunto with that flat ito style (there's a name for that).  Also, the mon is one I haven't seen.  Have you gotten it identified?

The mon is katabami "wood sorrel", I've seen this mon on two other swords. The were featured on the kabuto-gane and not on the menuki like this one, I'm unsure of why. the other were or appeared to be army types.

[Ohman]

6 hours ago, dwmc said:

Beautiful sword Oliver. Where in Idaho are you located? Would love to see your sword in person. Very nice Shin Gunto indeed...

 

I'm in the Boise area,

 

Dave M.

I'm in Boise, near downtown. 

[Ohman]

Here are some more photos of the sword, sorry they aren't amazing.

[David Flynn]

Tadayoshi, One and two, were both Very competent smiths.

[dwmc]

Sent you a PM Oliver. Please check your message box.  

 

Dave M.