Katana surrendered by Admiral Fukudome?

[Pincheck]

I’m not sure if I’ve posted this in the right section but the link below seems a little fishy to me. I’m no expert but the tassel appears to be a company grade officer, not an admiral. It claims the blade is signed by Yoshindo Yoshihara. The only Yoshihara I know of didn’t start making swords until 1965 and this sword is supposed to have been surrendered in 1945. It doesn’t look much like that Yoshindo Yoshihara’s work to me either, looks more like an oil quenched Gunto blade, but maybe there was a ww2 era Yoshihara I don’t know about? What do you guys think?
 

https://www.michaeldlong.com/product/Japanese-ww2-naval-katana-surrendered-by-admiral-fukudome/

[John C]

Jack:

I think you are right to be suspicious. I can't say which sword was surrendered and by whom, however this sword has very cheap late-war fittings with missing parts. I'm not 100 percent sure but I believe naval tassels were solid brown. Doesn't seem like an admiral's sword to me.

Just my two cents.

John C.

[PNSSHOGUN]

For what it's worth it's the Seki Tosho Yoshihara, not the Gendai Tosho. You'd want to see some documentation to back up the claims, and a far better resolution photo or video of Admiral Fukudome with a sword to confirm it. 

[Tensho]

Having purchased an item that was badly misrepresented from this seller, I wouldn't belive a word of any of it without having a ton of provenance. 

 

Besides having the very faded(which is strange considering the ito and sarute seem unaffected) company grade tassel I would expect an admirals kai gunto to be a little more higher end and have a full samegawa saya. 

Edited 8 hours ago by Tensho