Found the best example of the emergency produced, late-war officer gunto that I've ever seen.  Posting all the photos here as a study on the item.  Without the "Emergency" stamp, I would have been tempted to write this off as a bad Chinese copy.  In a sense, it was.  At the end of the war, Allied bombing had ruined a great deal of sword production capacity in mainland Japan.  Production was shipped out to Manchuria/China/Korea, and orders were sent out reducing the stringent mil specs on weapons