Weapon identification help needed

[tinman0629]

Please forgive my ignorance, but I am unsure what I have here.  I believe this to be a Partizan Pole Arm weapon.  Yes, i am holding it upside down. I beleive it to be a ceremonial piece not used for actual combat.  It is dulled on both sides of the blade.  Any assistance is greatly appreciated as I try to learn what period this would come from. If not Japanese, I apologize. Thank you in advance.

[Geraint]

Dear David.

 

Not Japanese as I think you suspected.  Not something I have seen but others may help with that.

 

All the best.

[tinman0629]

Thank you. Yes I suspected not Japanese. I was hoping it came from the collection of Japanese Armour and swords my father had collected.  

[ChrisW]

Perhaps Southeast Asian, like Vietnamese or Cambodian?

Mind showing us a picture of the tang area and the hole in the tang?

The soft-metal casting looks too crude to be Japanese. The whole thing looks like something done in the past century as a tourism piece. Might be loosely Japanese inspired? But I doubt its actually Japanese.

[Brian]

If you are on Facebook, join and list it here. They should know.
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[tinman0629]

Thanks, I requested to join the group. Here are a couple examples of what I could find on the internet, just no information listed. When i go to the site, i cant find the weapon shown in the image.

[MauroP]

Hi David, at first sight I'd say not Japanese, but in Museo d'arte Orientale in Venice is displayed, among Japanese polearms, a blade wich resembles yours. The museum collection is an historic private collection containing also some Javanese keris, so maybe the old curator messed the items a little bit. Anyway a Japanese origin cannot surely be ruled out.

 

[Brian]

The site above identified it as Vietnamese.
Didn't see any follow up posts with more info though.

[tinman0629]

I was hoping someone might follow up! Thanks for checking.

[John C]

26 minutes ago, tinman0629 said:

I was hoping someone might follow up! Thanks for checking.

I might be reading too much into the design, however is the blade supposed to be the dragon's tongue?

 

John C.