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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

Here is a another fake Mitsunaga mei from a souvenier sword. same crude.

No it was sold from a seller. Why is it important for you to know who has the sword? That mei in that souvenier sword is fake. Like the other mei on that kind of swords. Compare those mei you find with real swords.

No it was sold.

Btw i don't think that these filemarks on the souvenier swords are real filemarks by hand.

The mei is decoration and not from Mitsunaga. Look at the picture i made for you. Left mei is that from warrelics. Right one is Kaigunto from him. No. 447

All these swords are deco... Compare the mei. Did you think a swordsmith could loose his handwriting? They might as well have nailed Masamune in.

Only a mark from my side. Its a katana not a wakizashi. The blade is suriage.

Shachi reminds my allways on the big read dragonhead fish.