What is this?

[estcrh]

Any one ever see one of these before? Any ideas...its on yahoo Japan

[GregD]

look like a yariganna,a Japanese woodworking tool used to plane surfaces.

Here is a smaller Namazori,5th,6th&7nt from the left

Greg

[estcrh]

I think you are right, thanks! Nice tools by the way.

[machinist]

I would have said shuriken but Greg's idea is better.

Here is another.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Japanese-15mm-w-Shu ... 2eaad5fd55

[estcrh]

I would have said shuriken but Greg's idea is better.

Here is another.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Japanese-15mm-w-Shu ... 2eaad5fd55

.....Some sort of weapon was what I was thinking at first as it does look like a yari. I once bought a new replacement blade for a kozuka from a Japanese seller and he said that his family used to make weapons but now mostly makes tools, same basic methods with some slight differences.