Please help identify

[Kapow87]

Can anyone please help me identify this sword? It left to me along with two others but I'm not sure how to identify it.....

[Brian]

Afraid this is a modern Chinese wallhanger, not a Japanese sword

[Kapow87]

16 hours ago, Brian said:

Afraid this is a modern Chinese wallhanger, not a Japanese sword

Thanks for the info, do you have any other information you could tell me about it? 

[Kapow87]

 

 

16 hours ago, Brian said:

Afraid this is a modern Chinese wallhanger, not a Japanese sword

Thanks for the info, do you have any other information you could tell me about it? Do you know it definitely a wall hanger ? Just curious down to the date on the blade as you can faintly see in the top picture.

[Lexvdjagt]

55 minutes ago, Kapow87 said:

 

 

Thanks for the info, do you have any other information you could tell me about it? Do you know it definitely a wall hanger ? Just curious down to the date on the blade as you can faintly see in the top picture.

Hello,

 

A real Japanese blade does not have a “date” etched on the steel in the western calendar. This is a machine made Chinese blade that is 100% inauthentic.

 

Greetings,

Lex

[Bugyotsuji]

What is written on the blade is 豊臣秀吉 Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 1556(?)-1598, for whatever reason, though I am not sure what that first date refers to.

As others have said above...

[robinalexander]

Had to look twice for that.

[Shugyosha]

It's so it could be returned if he lost it on a battlefield. He had the same thing sewn into his kimono. 

[Bruce Pennington]

Hi Karl,

I agree with all the above, and should say that I'm no expert on samurai swords (I study WWII swords), but I've seen a lot of both.  I'll add to the list the cloth wrap (ito) is wrapped in the Chinese style - all twists in one direction, whereas Japanese ito alternates twist direction - and the blade has that lifeless look blades have when they've been made from one sheet of rolled steel, and the hamon (temper pattern) is artificially created.

 

Additionally, the habaki (brass collar on the blade) is trying to look like a 2-piece habaki, but it's most likely just one piece.