Yasunori shin-Gunto ?

[paul griff]

Hello Volker, on the scabbard throat has the number ,nothing on the ashi….Some photos of the blade for you Carl..

Regards,

              Paul.

[paul griff]

[paul griff]

 

[BANGBANGSAN]

On 6/17/2024 at 7:28 PM, BANGBANGSAN said:

The mei looks like 靖德（Yasunori)

靖憲 instead of 靖德，typo

[reeder]

Congrats! From the Yasukuni blades I’ve seen, both Yasunori smiths made nicer and more interesting blades compared to the other Yasukuni smiths.

[Brendan campbell]

Well done , on your find Paul. There were a few collectors there Sunday. Nice to see you found it and not one of the normal Japanese sword dealers . I’m sure had he still been alive Peter york would have had it before the doors were open . Congratulations . I think we met there last year. Brendan .

[Volker62]

indeed Reeder the two "Yasunori" actually make very attractive blades, but kajiyama Yasutoshi (son of Yasutoku)

 

is also in the top of this league

[Volker62]

 

Ajiki Yasyoshi not to forgive

 

very rare but also very attractive utsushi

 

 

[paul griff]

Thank you Brandon and yes I remember meeting you Brendan, hope all is well..There were quite a few nice items at that particular show and not so crowded on early entry…The dealer who was selling it just wasn’t particularly interested in Japanese swords said he bought them off a chap who didn’t want them anymore and paid a lot more for them…My only mistake was not buying the others !

Regards,

            Paul..

[Volker62]

[Volker62]

 on Imura Kashu ranking list

 

Kajiyama Yasutoshi's rank is on number 7 surprisingly before all other's

[PNSSHOGUN]

Another ranking of Yasukuni Tosho.

 

http://www.jp-sword....kuni/yasukunito.html

 

[Volker62]

maybe this makes things about Yasukuni clearer?

 

a great collector here in europe and real expert once researched it.

 

 

thank you Han Bing Siong

[Brendan campbell]

This is a great read, well done for putting it on the site. I’m pleased to see I have a Sadashige just polished, in lida naval fittings 

and  Norisada again new fresh polish. They have both turned out fantastic, I had a second Norisada , polished which I used in a deal for the Sadashige. 

[paul griff]

Excellent information in these posts..Thank you..

Paul.

[Volker62]

with pleasure fellow collector's

 

 

 

with the kind help of a well known collector from the Netherlands

[Volker62]

I'll try to post more information like this in the near future

[Brendan campbell]

Hi Paul, this was a Yasunori I owned in the early 80s . I traded it in for a mint Mino wakizashi, I thought I’d done a good deal in the trade £100. In time how wrong can 1 be.😱. Im sure it’s the actual sword in John Slough book . So i  think , it went from Plymouth UK to the States. 

[Volker62]

these excellently made blades simply lacked apprecation, even here in Germany by so called experts.

 

 

[Volker62]

it is thanks to collectors like Mr. Han Bing Siong that his research

 

has uncovered what unfortunately despised for far too long

[Nicholas]

Reviving this thread too add a 23rd generation Kanefusa I just picked up with the wooden saya.

[Conway S]

@Nicholas Does your Kanefusa have a “Sho” stamp? Can you share pictures of the blade and nakago?

 

@Bruce Pennington Does the stamp document attribute the star stamp on the fittings to the Shoheikan Kabushiki Kaisha shop? 

[Nicholas]

@Conway S no stamps on the nakago at all. I believe it’s a gendaito. It looks like a good quality blade to me compared to the few examples I’ve seen online. Here are a few pics

[Conway S]

Anything on the nakago mune?

 

I’ve viewed two in-hand and both had a sho stamp. The price wasn’t to my liking so I passed on them… hoping to have better luck next time. Congrats on the pick up! 
 

edit: May have been the Seki stamp I observed. 

Edited July 30 by Conway S

[Nicholas]

@Conway S Thank you. I haven’t seen many wartime Kanefusa gendaito Only Showato. Took a few pics with habaki off. No stamps whatsoever.

[Nicholas]

[Bruce Pennington]

17 hours ago, Conway S said:

 Does the stamp document attribute the star stamp on the fittings to the Shoheikan Kabushiki Kaisha shop? 

Conway,

This is the first example I've seen with both the shop logo and the small star on fittings.  Paul's example in the OP doesn't have the star on the fittings and all the other examples I have of the star didn't show the koiguchi.  It would fit since the logo has a small star in the center, but we'll have to find another example or 2 with them both.

 

The example I have from Tony A of Wehrmacht-awards has the star between the 2 numbers, like Nicholas' seppa, but he didn't post the koiguchi in his thread from 2023.

 

WW2 Shingunto For Sale - Tony A

[Bruce Pennington]

@paul griff - Is there a small star on the seppa and/or tsuba of your Kanefusa?

[BANGBANGSAN]

On 7/31/2025 at 4:45 AM, Nicholas said:

Reviving this thread too add a 23rd generation Kanefusa I just picked up with the wooden saya.

 

 

 

This fitting was made by 尚兵館軍裝株式會社 Shōheikan Military Uniform Co., Ltd. The company specialized in cloth-wrapped and lacquered wooden scabbard fittings for military swords, and applied for (and obtained) a patent number for this design.
P.S.: Swords forged by 23rd generation Kanefusa Fujiwara 二十三代藤原兼房, were sold exclusively through this company.