Military Swords of Japan

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1. NCO Type 95 identification help

   By Mike Murphy, September 7, 2025
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   • Bruce Pennington
   • September 15, 2025

2. Any Tips For Period Re-Paint?

   By Bruce Pennington, March 12, 2016
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   • BANGBANGSAN
   • April 14, 2017

3. katana Need Help Identifying Blade And Sword

   By hbaubele, November 19, 2018   

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   • tsuba
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   • Dave R
   • November 21, 2018

4. A Study: Minatogawa-to

   By Bruce Pennington, October 29, 2021
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   • Bruce Pennington
   • January 23, 2023

5. Tachi-style Police Sword

   By Bruce Pennington, June 13, 2020
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   • Shamsy
   • April 1, 2023

6. Two shin gunto (or so it seems) in UK

   By MrJones, February 18, 2010
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   • Stephen
   • March 4, 2010

7. Help with mei on beat up Type 98

   By JustinJustin, March 31, 2022
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   • Bruce Pennington
   • April 2, 2022

8. Bought a Japanese Type 94 or 98 mount & Katana- Help! I'm a newbie. Pic links in message

   By waljamada, December 18, 2019
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   • waljamada
   • December 27, 2019

9. Kai Gunto

   By EdWolf, November 28, 2017
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   • EdWolf
   • December 3, 2017

10. Japanese Naval Swords WW2

    By mecox, December 16, 2024
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    • Polaria
    • January 1, 2025

11. RJT Kanetoshi

    By Mortis, August 15, 2020
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    • jesup
    • May 11, 2021

12. The infamous NCO black saya strikes again

    By zook, April 24, 2020
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    • Erwin
    • May 14, 2020

13. Earliest Date On A Kogarasu Maru Blade?

    By jct3602, April 15, 2015
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    • jct3602
    • April 18, 2015

14. Marine Mount Gendaito

    By geekman, March 6, 2018
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    • geekman
    • March 8, 2018

15. Unknown significance of chevron design on Sarute

    By PNSSHOGUN, October 5, 2023
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    • Bruce Pennington
    • Wednesday at 01:33 AM

16. Another 98

    By Windy, September 11, 2017
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    • Bruce Pennington
    • September 27, 2017

17. Fake Gunto's on egun with higher bids

    By vajo, September 13, 2020
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    • vajo
    • August 6, 2021

18. Type 95 NCO Question??

    By dwmc, February 13, 2021
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    • BANGBANGSAN
    • March 22

19. New Suya NCO Type 95 Pick-up

    By zook, April 23, 2019
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    • Mister Gunto
    • May 1, 2019

20. Newbie With Shin Gunto

    By Jim R, July 8, 2017   

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    • Bruce Pennington
    • July 9, 2017

21. Fujiwara Kanenaga, anti-rust steel and "real hamon".

    By Bruno, April 18, 2012
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    • Lindus
    • April 22, 2012

22. Unusual Tassel

    By BANGBANGSAN, March 14, 2020
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    • Kai-Gunto
    • April 9, 2020

23. SHOWA STAMP OR JUST A MARK?

    By Bruno, September 21, 2009
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    • Bruno
    • September 30, 2009

24. Gunto 98? Research Led Me Here - Id Help

    By Pinmaster, November 23, 2015
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    • Pinmaster
    • November 30, 2015

25. Genuine or Fake WWII NCO Swords?

    By Tomuel, March 29, 2019
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    • Kolekt-To
    • September 17, 2021