Up for sale is a Japanese WWll Naval officer`s sword in excellent condition, It measures 25+3/8" tip to the guard, 24+3/4" cutting edge, 1+1/8" width, 6 mm thickness at the notch and 38" in mountings.
The temper line is attractive gunome-choji temper pattern throughout the blade and has deep temper at the point.
It came with brown Naval sword tassel, no cut, no fade and in mint condition. Tsuba and o-seppa are matched number 0346 stamped and kikusui-mon stamped on ko-seppa.
The handle is tight fit with kikusui-mon engraved copper habaki, tsuka-ito wrapping is no cut, no loose.
The scabbard is same-gawa (ray-skin) covered wood scabbard, no tear, no crack, no bend.
The forging grain is tight itame-hada, no opening, no blister, no forging flaws.
The blade is in original polish, no rust, no stain well maintained.
Japanese WWll Naval officer`s sword in kaigunto mountings, The blade is signed "Kikusui mon, Minatogawa Jinja Masanao 菊水紋, 湊川神社正直", dated "Showa Juhachi-nen Ku-gatsu hi (a day, Sep., 1943) 昭和十八年九月日", shinogi-zukuri shape, WWll time period made blade.
Asking Price: USD$8000
If you are interested kindly send me a message or mail
keyh503 at gmail dot com
Thanks for looking..!!!