Yasutoku - made for Hideki Tojo. 🤣

[KungFooey]

Sold for nearly $6K - with a fake company officer's tassel for good measure. (Tojo must have been miffed at that.)
Made Showa 19, so 1944 - even though Yasutoku left the shrine in 1940. 
 

Totally wrong yasurime and his mei seems a bit off - maybe he had one too many sake cups the night before with General Tojo? 🤔

 

Dee
 

 

 

 

 

 

Yahoo!オークション - 九八式軍刀　靖徳　長さ62....

[Brian]

Compare:
https://www.wehrmach...shingunto-gift-sword

[KungFooey]

4 minutes ago, Brian said:

Compare:
https://www.wehrmach...shingunto-gift-sword

Sorry Brian, I'm not allowed to see that page as I'm not a member of the forum.

[Brian]

Yeah, it's a sign up (free) forum. But that sword has pages of info about the one shown there, so may be worth the quick sign up.

[KungFooey]

18 minutes ago, Brian said:

Yeah, it's a sign up (free) forum. But that sword has pages of info about the one shown there, so may be worth the quick sign up.

Well I tried and I tried for 20 minutes but I gave up. Long story short: do you think the sword I posted is legit?

[PNSSHOGUN]

Maybe a different Hideki Tojo, in the latrine corps.....

[KungFooey]

Same guy has another gunto up for sale - this time with Uncle Fong fittings and Bubba-san polish. (And still they bid.)

 

Yahoo!オークション - 特殊軍刀外装　登録証付属　長...

[Bruce Pennington]

The one from W-A:

[KungFooey]

37 minutes ago, Bruce Pennington said:

The one from W-A:

Hi Bruce!

Many thanks for that! I can see Tojo's name in both (pic below) but the one I posted from Yahoo is wrong on so many levels (fittings, tassel, mei, yasurime, length, blade features, nakago shape, historical dates etc).

 

Who made the presumably real one from W-A?

 

Dee

[Bruce Pennington]

“The sword is a Gendaito made by Koshimizu Moritoshi one of Japan's top 12 war time sword smith's. Existing Moritoshi made blades are in them selves difficult to find as he died relatively young. He was only 39.”