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I have these pictures of a sword that was passed down through my wife’s family and her grandfather who was US military in WWII. He brought this sword back from Japan.  That’s all I know. Is there anything more to it? Sorry for being ignorant about these things. Thank you for your help. 
 

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Sean,

You have a highly collectable sword there!  Emura, even if he is middle rated, is popular in collecting circles because of his story.  

 

The whole sword is called a Type 98 Japanese officer sword, or "gunto" which is "army sword."  You can read all about them on Ohmura's great site:

 

Type 98 Gunto - Ohmura

 

and everything about all the rest of the WWII swords:

Military Swords of Imperial Japan - Gunto 

 

 

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