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10% discount on all of the above books except for the one below. The 1997 F&G temporarily reduced to $199.

Sugawa Shigeo 須川薫雄. Nihon no kikanjū 日本の機関銃: 日露戦争100周年を迎えて [Japanese Machine Guns: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Russo-Japanese War]. SugawaWeapons Company, 2003. Dust jacket, hardcover, 7.5 x 10.25 inches, 470 pages, tables, B&W illustrations with 8 page color insert. Weight 3 lb 2 oz, printed in Japan. US$199 includes S&H to USA.

Windows 8.1 Open a photograph in Microsoft Paint. This can be done by right-clicking the image file, scrolling down to “Open with” and clicking on “Paint.” The program will automatically open and should be on the “Home” tab. If not on the “Home” tab, then click on the "Home" tab. In the "Image" section, second from the left, click on “Resize” and a popup window will appear. In the “Resize” section in the top half of the popup window, make sure there is a check-mark in the “Maintain aspect ratio.” For most cellphone and camera photographs, enter the number 25 in either the Horizontal or Vertical row. The number entered will automatically appear in the other row. [For small size photographs, use a larger number. For large size images, use a lower number.] Click on “OK.” The resized picture is now viewable in the work space of MS Paint. In the upper left corner, click on the “File” tab. From the popup window, click on “Save as” and select a file format. [Selecting “JPEG picture” will work best for most forums.] Then select a location to save the file to, give the file a name, and finally click on “Save.”

Babich, Gregory. Imperial Japanese Grenade Rifles and Launchers [大日本帝國の擲彈銃と擲彈器]. Dutch Harlow Publishing Company, 2004. Dust jacket, hardcover, 8.5 x 11 inches, 264 pages, color illustrations. Weighs 3 lb 6 oz, printed in USA. New condition. US$80.

Reduced to US$65.

On temporary hold.

Taihei Kumiai. Catalogue A: Rifles, Machine Guns and Others. Originally printed in about 1935. Reprinted by Fred L. Honeycutt, Jr., 1979. Softcover, 8.5 x 11 inches, 76 pages, grayscale illustrations. Weight 0 lb 11 oz, printed in USA. US$45 includes shipping to USA. @Stegel Note the length of the leather sword knot on the Type 32.

Sample pages for the first three dictionaries. Kenkyusha's O'Neill Creswell

Kerchove, René de. International Maritime Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Useful Maritime Terms and Phrases, together with Equivalents in French and German. 2nd edition. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1961. Blue hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, 1018 pages, drawings. Weight 3 pounds 4 ounces, printed in USA. $25.

That could very well be the case. Both brass and steel tsubas show up in this Suya range; however, they always have numbered scabbards. Below is Kobe, serial 47961, for comparison. Arsenal Stamps.

Search Terms Type 95 Military Sword, Kokura Arsenal, Gifu, Gunto. Type 98 with leather scabbard, Seki swordsmith, Mishina. 義明 Yoshiaki. 昭和十六年 1941.

The serial number is 49810 and falls within the range used by Suya. I agree with "John C" that the scabbard is a replacement, either lost or damaged beyond repair. The scabbard inspection marks are as follows. 東 社 (This stamp is either struck at an angle or broken.)

The iron tsuba was made by Kanenobu. 長州萩金信 Chōshū Hagi Kanenobu. Translation courtesy of "mywei". Help translating a Tsuba

Listing for sale the last of the Japanese dictionaries in storage. Kenkyusha’s New Japanese-English Dictionary. Edited by Koh Masuda. 4th edition. Kenkyusha, 1974. Boxed, dust jacket, hardcover, 7 x 10 inches, 2114 pages, text only. Weight 5 lb 11 oz including box; printed in Japan. US$99. O’Neill, P. G. Japanese Names: A Comprehensive Index by Characters and Readings. John Weatherhill, Inc., 1972. Dust jacket, red hardcover, 6.25 x 9.25 inches, 360 pages, text only. Weight 1 lb 11 oz, printed Japan. US$25. Creswell, H. T., J. Hiraoka, and R. Namba. A Dictionary of Military Terms: English-Japanese, Japanese-English. American edition. University of Chicago Press, 1942. Hardcover, 7 x 6 inches, 1404 pages, two pages per page, text only. Weight 1 lb 9 oz, printed in USA. US$40. All of the above have no writing or highlighting, no missing pages or tears, all in very good condition.

Cox, Malcolm E. Showa Period Swordsmiths of Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyushu, and the Kokura Arsenal. 2024. A4 size, 149 pages, B&W & color illustrations. Besides gendai Fukuoka swordsmiths, this study also covers the arsenal markings used on RJT blades made under the supervision of Kokura Army Arsenal. For this reason, it covers some of the surrounding prefectures under the jurisdiction of Kokura Army Arsenal. This is the first serious English language study of this aspect of wartime blade production.