An audience for publication on Gunto

[Peter Bleed]

Man at Arms, a journal for gun and sword collectors, regularly features letters about readers’ interest. The latest issue - 44, no. 5:35 October 2022 - had a brief letter from Zack Marotte (address unknown) saying “I would be fascinated in learning more about Japanese Katanas used during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937) and the Second World War (1939-1945).” The Editor’s response was positive and wondered if anyone might want to take on this challenge.

People here on NMB certainly have the expertise and ability to produce the kind of article that is called for here. And it would be easy to point Zack and others to available sources. It might also be good for sword collecting and for the NMB. Sharpen your pens, colleagues.

Peter

[Bruce Pennington]

In my military days of old, the guy that asked the question often got assigned the task!  Ha! 

 

A daunting task.  Such an article could be as simple a one paragraph or one page summary.  For a more expansive article, my mind would like to have some facts like - Which country's swords were copied (I think Germany? Solengen comes to mind); I'm wondering if the re-fitted family blades in kyugunto came in early, or did everyone first try the mass-produced kyu and after being dissatisfied, started re-fitting samurai swords.

 

It would come to gathering and summarizing what has already been said in the current reference books - Ohmura, Fuller, Dawson, and others; with representative pics thrown in.

 

Do-able; but to find the time!!!