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That's a beauty, Marcin!  Kanenao in Murata style blade.  The fittings are high quality.  My personal guess would be that the second haikan simply went missing.  The late-war kaigunto, with authorized single haikan, didn't have gold gilding on the fittings.

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1 minute ago, Bruce Pennington said:

That's a beauty, Marcin!  Kanenao in Murata style blade.  The fittings are high quality.  My personal guess would be that the second haikan simply went missing.  The late-war kaigunto, with authorized single haikan, didn't have gold gilding on the fittings.

Thanks! Be so kind and give this collector helpfull hand ;) I don’t want post link to nmb there as it’s their tos violation.

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On 1/3/2026 at 12:10 PM, Rawa said:

I don’t want post link to nmb there as it’s their tos violation.

 

That is odd, I don't recall Brian ever taking down one of my links and I have posted hundreds of them.  I wonder what it is that they are afraid of?  The last time I grabbed a ghost all I got was a handful of sheets.

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Seki ju Ishihara Kanenao saku 

 KANENAO (兼直), real name Ishihara Kanenao (石原金直), born May 25th 1908, he studied under Amachi Suzuichi (天地鈴市) and worked as a guntō smith. Registered as a Seki tosho 27 October, 1939 (Showa 14) age 31. Early in the war made some stainless steel Takayama-to.

Examples and background in Japanese Naval Swords, Part 1, in NMB Downloads (top of page).

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