Military Swords of Japan

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1. Shin Gunto with Attitude 1 2

   By Austus, December 17, 2019
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   • BenVK
   • December 22, 2019

2. Question about Kyu-Gunto.

   By SergeyCH, December 18, 2019
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   • Death-Ace
   • December 19, 2019

3. Nice activity in civilian blade gunto saya

   By Stephen, December 8, 2019
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   • Stephen
   • December 16, 2019

4. Showato or Gendaito?

   By masondj, December 14, 2019
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   • Bruce Pennington
   • December 16, 2019

5. Need for "pinned" Type 95 NCO informational post.

   By WilBru5, December 11, 2019
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   • 16k
   • December 13, 2019

6. Is this sword what I think it is, or is it better than I thought?

   By Mark Millman, December 12, 2019
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   • Stephen
   • December 13, 2019

7. Shin-Gunto Tang Paint Markings

   By tbonesullivan, December 9, 2019
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   • Bruce Pennington
   • December 11, 2019

8. A Very Strange Police Sword

   By Tdognc, December 10, 2019
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   • December 10, 2019

9. Some infomation Wanted on a Navy Gunto

   By MacTheWhopper, December 10, 2019
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   • PNSSHOGUN
   • December 10, 2019

10. Chinese made guntos

    By PacificRim, December 3, 2019
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    • Dave R
    • December 4, 2019

11. machine made swords? please clirify

    By Alex Genikov, December 4, 2019
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    • Dave R
    • December 4, 2019

12. Fujiwara Kazunori

    By Medina San1, December 3, 2019
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    • Medina San1
    • December 4, 2019

13. Help identifying

    By Joryc444, December 3, 2019
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    • Ganko
    • December 3, 2019

14. interesting awesome

    By lonely panet, December 3, 2019
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    • cisco-san
    • December 3, 2019

15. Info needed on the classification on this sword/blade

    By Runt, November 29, 2019   

    • gunto
    • katana
    • (and 1 more)

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      • gunto
      • katana
      • translation
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    • 16k
    • December 2, 2019

16. suspect nakago

    By lonely panet, December 1, 2019
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    • dwmc
    • December 2, 2019

17. Shin Gunto 1938

    By Fumei, November 27, 2019
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    • Dave R
    • November 29, 2019

18. How did that get there?

    By Lance, November 27, 2019
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    • Brian
    • November 28, 2019

19. Looking for insight on traditionally made katana with gunto fittings 1 2

    By Hardy, November 5, 2019
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    • SAS
    • November 27, 2019

20. Researching Imperial Japanese Soldier

    By Wickstrom, November 26, 2019
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    • SteveM
    • November 26, 2019

21. Military sword?

    By nektoalex, November 25, 2019
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    • Dave R
    • November 26, 2019

22. Gunto Kanenori

    By shibeni, November 24, 2019
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    • reeder
    • November 24, 2019

23. Help translate and Identify nakago on Showato

    By 0Takeda0, November 22, 2019   

    • katana
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    • 0Takeda0
    • November 24, 2019

24. Naval Dirk

    By BitsnBobs, November 19, 2019
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    • BitsnBobs
    • November 20, 2019

25. Type 32 "Otsu" Sword. Is it fake? Some help or info wanted

    By MacTheWhopper, November 18, 2019
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    • Bruce Pennington
    • November 20, 2019