1960katana

Sorry for the sideways nakago. I actually know better, just had a brain fart on this one.

No stamps on the nakago, but I'd like to hear your opinion on who signed it. My wife is Chinese, although she can't read Japanese, she can read the number of kanji strokes in the mei. I use my "kanji strokes" cheat sheet and between the two of us we came up with Masa Tsune. I found Amachi Masatsune in Slough's book on page 221. I'm not sure if it's correct, I'd appreciate it if someone could verify it for me.

Well like I said in my first post, I just assumed it was something that one of the first owners put on the saya to display the sword. It wasn't until later that I thought there may have been something more to it. If someone wants to see more photos of it I'll post them, but if you've ever seen a WWI Japanese naval sword with a brown tassel, that's what it looks like, nothing special except the tsuba, seppa AND THE FUCHI have all the same numbers stamped on them. I haven't seen stamped fuchis before. Thanks for looking and replying, I appreciate the help.

I bought this navel sword about a year ago at a local antique store. It has an engraved tag glued to the saya. When I first saw it, I assumed it was just something that a former owner attached because he thought it sounded cool. I realize this is just wishful thinking on my part, but I wondered if it was more important than that. I was thinking that it could have been possible that this sword could have been a batch of swords that the US navy presented to dignitaries and higher ranking officers on the day of the signing of the surrender on the Missouri. The date is wrong and it was installed "upside-down" the way westerns would have mounted a sword. But I'm sure the navel officer in charge of this project could have screwed that up on his own. So my question; is it possible that the US Navy could have taken a batch (20? to 50?) surrendered Japanese swords and presented them to people present at the signing of the surrender on Sept 2nd, 1945? Has anyone heard of such a thing, or am I just wanting to believe it's true? Thanks, Phil