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  1. any leads? I only say this artist because it was mentioned inside the scabbard.
  2. Its my first Katana, so spending the extra money to have it professionally polished wouldn't be a problem fro me. Even if its not financially smart, its my first and carries more meaning to me. I do wonder though after the polish how much it would be to get it professionally inspected to verify the smith. Thank you for the help everyone, I was hoping someone on here was familiar with the smiths work and could see if I was in the right direction
  3. I have a Japanese WWII army/tank crew katana with a 1550 era made blade o-suriage. The scabbard is leather covered and has some writing under the leather strap, with a tremendous amount of help i was able to identify that it states the maker is 備前助 or 備州長船助宗作 bishū osafune sukemune saku (SUK279) Seller stated "its Shinogi-zukuri shape, the temper line is wavy gunome temper pattern through out the blade and has deep temper at the point. The forging grain is itame-hada. it measures 23+3/8" cutting edge, 1+1/16" width, 5mm thickness at the notch and 34+3/4" in mountings." Can someone identify that it is indeed from this smith or maybe someone else
  4. if it was an army Sergeant, where they known for carrying a scabbard like this with a shortened blade? it measures 23+3/8" cutting edge and 34+3/4" in mountings. Also I want to say thank you for every ones help! I feel like the more research I do on this Shin-Gunto the more down the rabbit hole I go, and the more I have questions about stuff
  5. Ill just look as close as possible to army ranks then, all of the officer ranks have that specific kanji identified and only 1 enlisted ranks has it. So i'm guessing its in the officers then. On another note i did see the kanji for water on the second line, thats why i thought navy.
  6. Can anyone take a guess at what the rank could say, I can try to put up better pictures tomorrow. It would answer if it was a navy or army personnel. Ive tried looking over and over at the ranks and without one more kanji its hard to put a finger on it. all the way to to the right.
  7. thanks everyone! I will try to put the blade up tomorrow to see if anyone can verify if it is a Sukemune blade
  8. is there anyone i can send the bade in to get it verified?
  9. it is not signed, it could have been before but the sword was shortened at some point.
  10. thank you sooo much! would wakayama be where the scabbard/katana was made or where the owner was from?
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