I'll take some more pictures, hopefully this week. My mom will pass it down someday, but I don't want to take it right now, so I have to go there to take more pictures. I've been meaning to forever anyway.
I have a couple of other pictures but they're too large to upload. It doesn't have any metal in/on the saya other than the hanger.
Bruce, I had this on the firearms of the rising sun message board ages ago and I worked on figuring out what the sword is with various posters (you, Edokko?) back then. I think we had decided that it isn't a forged blade and likely machine made. I just want/ed to be able to have the details a little more dialed in on it anyway.
I'm never able to get good pictures of the blade, but I believe we decided that what we had going on is grain opening up or cracks were likely from polishing. We tried to decipher what looked to be kanji inside the saya, but I couldn't get a good shot of that, either. Lol.
I know it is original insofar that my grandfather brought it back after WW2 along with my T99 and T30 bayonet.
Do you have any advice on getting good pictures of the blade without reflections and the inner saya?
