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Looks really similar to me.

The faker fakes fake. People are stupid but this would be really strange.

If someone shows me a Longquan Sword Catalogue or something else with exactly that kind of swords after 1945 i will move from my opinion. Btw. Typ95 NCO swords where sold 20 years ago how much? 80 Dollars or 200 Dollar? And now 1.000 Dollar. Jesus, if someone told me buy NCO swords they will be an investment in some years

That sword is one of these handmade wartime "fake" swords from mainland china. I surely doubt that these are imitations of typ98 swords. They are so crude and ugly they must be authentic dressed the chinese puppet troops in service of Japan. We could not call all fake what is shaped like a Japanese sword that didn't come from Japan. Sometimes it is different. If someone buys it thinking its genuine Japanese its not my problem. There are books or 5 Minutes in Google to find the truth. But maybe someone will collect these "trash" swords? I dunno. Is this a fake Volkswagen? No it's Volkswagen made in Brasil 1970

All good George. Good hunting for another one.

Fake. Forget it. The sign on the habaki is from the Marto Company Spain. You can buy it new for 150 Dollar.

Found something more about Toyama Grounds. Toyama Grounds or Rikugun Toyama Gakko was as training academy of the IJA which was established of Toyama-ryu. The Toyama-ruy had 3 facilities located in Kanto, Tokei and Kansai. The main task was to train Japanese officers in Kenjutsu, iai-batto kata and tamashigiri. After the war the US Army build up in Tokyo on the ground of the Rikugun Toyama Gakka its Camp Zama. Pictures Here you see the camp zama from July 20, 1953. The new buildings are from the US Army. The older one the original IJA Army training houses. The center building are made new because the original burned down in a fire. view on the village outside camp zama (toyoma grounds) View outside the camp on the road to the village.

Greys advise works allways for me. A soft rubber hammer and a piece of wood along the mune on top of the habaki will loose it. This also works when the tsuka is fixed on the nakago. You can fix the blade between the sheets of an big hardcover novel and pressing your knee on the book. I use allways my book Clausewitz "from war".

As a notice i didn't found a sword forged on his ground later then 1940. Mitsuru died 1944. The most swords where forged between 1933 - 1938 on the ground related to that stories around him and his politics. There are some books about him but all of them are in Japanese. Some western writings on *.pdf sheets are shown in google but with a dead link.

It could be the same Bruce. But i didn't read anything about the production of non traditional swords or NCO swords around with the name of the founder of the Genyosha or Black Dragon Society. So Nick's post is a little strange for me who is the owner of the toyama forge. Was it Mitsuru himself or is this one of his companies? Did he had some companies? As i know he was a poor samurai who became a politician.

It depends on the polish condition. Fresh polish - Shira saya. If the blade is in good condition in its original Koshirae no new shira saya needed. A new blade which comes with Koshirae need no shira saya. If the blade comes with shira saya - you should store it in it. You can present the Koshirae on a kake.

Here some more swords i found with the mei "forged on the ground of Mitsuru Toyama" all of these have hozon or tokkubetsu hozon.

I think the Mannerheim presentation Tanto which Ohmura shows was also forged on the ground.

Here is an example. http://www.aoijapan....ord/2015/15463-2.jpg "Kasama Ikkansai Shigetsugu Saku Kore To-yama Mitsuru Teinai. Showa 13 Nen 2 Gatsu Kichijitsu Sakai Ikkansai Shigemasa Horu Kore Showa 49 Nen 8 Gatsu Kichijitsu" Some members here in the board are owners of genyosha swords forged by Shigetsugu, Okimasa, Kuniie and others. These swords are forged full traditional to restore the old samurai spirit and special signed. The Toyama sword production was not on the same place i think. I remember on a old photo with a garden view and genyosha members. In the background you see something like a small temple and a forge. On the picture a sword is dedicated to one of an official. I'm not sure but i think i saw this picture on Ed's website some years ago i took some research about the forging on the Toyama Mitsuru ground.

I was choosing my name as i register here on the board finding a name. On that time i had a notebook from Sony Type Vajo. Thats all the background nothing special. Bruce is the Toyama school the same forge as the private forge of Mitsuru Toyama? Mitsuru was the head of the genyosha. I know only from high class gendai-to which was forged on his ground from high rated smiths. The swords where given to members of the genyosha. So i'm a little irritated by reading about Type95 swords. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tōyama_Mitsuru

Hard to say Thomas. Look not directly on the picture, more from the side.

I wonder about the ashi and the fittings. I see this on uchigatana. Maybe a meiji revival piece?

Its a nice shinto katana my guess.

Hard to say from the pictures. Could be late muromachi or shinto. Could we get close up pictures of the boshi and the blade?

Jimi-san is a very good seller. I was satisfied. Btw. Jimi-san looks like a 00-Agent from a James Bond Movie.

Fake

In that collection are upload pictures that titled "my 3 favourites" - i think these are my favourites too. (click on it)

Here it is. The same sword brand new https://www.egun.de/...item.php?id=19276080