Type 98 Identification please .

[ZoomZ]

Please help me with this .

 

Name , date , factory made ?

[Ray Singer]

Please see below:

https://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/35930-late-model-war-mounts-1944-date/?tab=comments#comment-372025

[ZoomZ]

Thanks Ray !

 

I wonder why its back up for sale .

 

The tip of the blade almost looks like it was fixed.

 

Ray , are you going to the Orlando show ?

 

Russ

 

[Ray Singer]

6 minutes ago, ZoomZ said:

Ray , are you going to the Orlando show ?

 

Russ

 

 

Very unlikely I will be able to attend this year with work commitments. Have a great time if you go.

 

Best regards,

Ray

 

 

[ZoomZ]

I was hoping you would be there with that Ushoshin 

 

 

[ZoomZ]

Ray , on the ushoshin what is that little round symbol with the 3 peddles ?

[uwe]

Russell,

 

it’s a family crest (mon). The shape is called “Maru ni sanmai sasa no maru” (a round forming, three petaled bamboo in a circle)….

[ZoomZ]

8 hours ago, uwe said:

Russell,

 

it’s a family crest (mon). The shape is called “Maru ni sanmai sasa no maru” (a round forming, three petaled bamboo in a circle)….

Thanks man !

 

Ive never seen that on a type 98 before .

 

So the officer that had this sword made had that added ?

 

Russ

 

[cisco-san]

Hello,

 

from Markus book:

KANEMOTO (兼元), Shōwa (昭和, 1926-1989), Saga – “Hizen no Kuni Nagase-jū Kanemoto saku” (肥前国長瀬住兼元作), “Higo no Kuni Kanemoto” (肥前国兼元), real name Motomura Kensaku (元村兼作), born 1907, he studied from 1924 under the 3rd gen. Mutō Hisahiro (武藤久広) and worked as a rikugun-jumei-tōshō, jōko no jōi (Akihide) , Fifth Seat at the 6th Shinsaku Nihontō Denrankai (新作日本刀展覧会, 1941)

[uwe]

47 minutes ago, ZoomZ said:

Thanks man !

 

Ive never seen that on a type 98 before .

 

So the officer that had this sword made had that added ?

 

Russ

 

Have a look here…..