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The best picture I have is picture #4 as the handle has to be tapped on and off pretty hard. I tried to pull it off but it doesn’t want to budge.

Is this a traditionally made or a machine made sword? Not super knowledgeable on these.

Recently acquired this Gunto for a decent price. Better than my last one, as far as I can tell. Have had some trouble translating the tang. Sorry about the poor quality tang photos as the handle is extremely difficult to remove. Just curious as to if it’s real and what the Tang Translation says. Thanks!

I don’t think there is an expert in my area unfortunately but I will try to do some research. Thank you guys for all the suggestions and help.

So I got the end of the scabbard off and the wood liner moved about an inch and will not move any further, possibly due to it being dented?

Here’s what I got hopefully these are good enough, I wasn’t able to take the scabbard apart.

I’ll try to as soon as I get home, my friend mentioned he thought he could see one but idk we will see

I would be willing to invest it but I don’t know where I would go. As i understand it takes years to get it done but that’s fine with me.

I understand both terms can be used interchangeably. I would never try to sharpen something like this myself.

I’ll try that when I get back home later today if I can figure out how to take it off. ive looked at some prices, my friend used to be into this stuff years ago so he’s trying to steer me in the right direction. If I makes sense to fix it then I can surely try.

I’m not opposed to having it polished just only if it makes sense. In a way I wanted something that was interesting like this but just didn’t expect something like this, guess it’s what I get for being un-educated on the subject. He(the guy I purchased it from)has a couple other signed swords and while being in better condition(sharp), the other one I was looking at had a ripped handle wrapping? And he was asking much more for that, about 3-5k if I remember correctly. edit: I should also mention he and I had no idea this had been signed, my friend used to collect stuff so he suggested to look at it so if it was. Explains the good price because he thought it was just a normal machine made one.

Thank you much. Back on the hunt for one, was only on the hunt for a couple months.

I just like to collect very nice things, and I just want a nice example, nothing crazy just something that was used for sure in ww2. It really will just be for display but it feels like a punch in the gut to know what’s been done to it.