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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urashima_Tarō

I like that falchion styled shape. Nice piece.

They fly in the morning from sleeping places to their food places and in the evening back.

Genuine Japanese Katana. Someone treat it badley with acid. The hamon is seen very weak. Gimei signature. Looks shin-shinto.

It looks stunning. No matter what it is. Good Sword and a beautiful example.

Tsuba is heianjo with famous mon. The boars eye seppa didn't fit to the tsuba. It looks assembled together.

For me it looks like a cut down Katana from shinto period. Nice Hamon with a lot of activity.

Hi George all the leather tips you get are great. Good luck with your sword and the koshirae care

Hi Sam short family blade bring it to war gunto. It has the typical green ito. I had twice of these over the time. Some soldiers prefer the short wakizashi blades in ww2 for different reasons. Nice piece and a good buy. Please care for the leather and the leather clip. If you bring back the life into the leather it will be shine deep red. This was mine Dotanuki - Wakizashi Norisada - Wakizashi I had one more with green ito and a mumei muromachi blade but i didn't find the pictures. I like these waki in guto koshira very much. Good to handle and lovely in hand.

Bruce those pictures of moses are photoshoped to bring out the best result. This blade never looks like in hand like those picture. He wrote ww2 polish. I say no. The lines are wrong, the yokote is missing. And there is no longer a boshi. The blade is like any other souvenir sword bades. With or without a cicsled mei.

Nice article but he forget tsukushi/ chikushi naginata 筑紫薙刀 .

The tsuka is badly paint but the cast is well made. With the right paint and some work in patination it could be blame a lot of people. Its a fake sword. Compare it with that one.

Celluloid is made by mixing cellulose nitrate, camphor and ethanol together. At end of war there was no longer a celluloid industry in Japan. All three basic materials were hardly available anymore. The raw materials were urgently needed in the munitions factories and in medicine. I cannot imagine that the production of artificial ray skin would have been decisive for the war. Celluloid wasn't cheap "plastic" as the most think when they see celluloid same. It was expensive. Surely much more expensive then normal "same" which everyday came in tons from Japanese fishmarkets. Before the war 90% of the worldwide camphor came from the chinese island of Taiwan (Formosa). The camphor forests on the island was the base for the camphor production. During the war Japans movie and camera industrie use paper as replacement for celluloid. You can find all those facts about celluloid in the net but the community is resitant against celluloid same and calls it cheap plastic. How many real celluloid did you have at home? And if it is cheap why it is not used anymore?

So it starts...

remove the sarute. It is historical wrong and doesn't look nice on a nco sword. Keep it for a Type98

My safe? <-- look at my location and then compare with the pieces inside that picture

My first thought after seeing that picture.

How not handle with swords.

Real or fake who can judge with that kind of pictures? The "vordic track pro classic skier training" is genuine and sharp visible on that picture. The tassel is 100% fake i bet.

plum blossom on water?

The good thing about those Toyosuke swords is that every sword has a unique signature from the same smith Every signature is unique. Great.

Of course i discredit it and buy those swords cheap and resell it for a lot of money . When you think in that way all is said. Belive your conspiracy theory about those swords.

I think this older tachi from early showa era could be that Mitsunaga from the wartime period. The mei is nearly the same. Only the last stroke on Mitsu is different but between these two swords are +- 20 years? He was born 1918