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Japanese Naval Officer's Kai-gunto Sword
Technology
Maker: Masahiro, Hattori
Japanese Naval Officer's sword (kai-gunto) . Blade tang marked Seki (Arsenal) Forges (post 1942), Mino Province, made by Masahiro. Family name unreadable. Wrapped around the tang was a postcard being ...REL/20363.001
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Japanese Naval Officer's Kai-gunto sword and scabbard : Lieutenant A P Coxon, 55/53rd Battalion
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Maker: Unknown
Japanese kai-gunto naval officer's sword and scabbard. The hilt has standard Imperial Japanese Navy gilded brass fittings of a fushi, kabuto-gane and cherry blossom menuki under the brown handle bindi...REL33979
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Japanese Naval Officer's Kai-gunto sword and scabbard with leather battle guard : Lieutenant Colonel N L Fleay DSO, 2/7th Cavalry (Commando) Regiment
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Maker: Kamakura Tenshozan Tanrenjo
Japanese Naval Officer's Kai-gunto sword and scabbard. The hilt has standard Japanese Navy gilded brass fittings of a fuchi (collar), kabuto-gane (pommel) and triple cherry blossom menuki (hilt orname...REL39523
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Japanese naval officers sword and scabbard : Lieutenant R P Cummins, 61 Battalion
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Maker: Unknown
Japanese Naval Kai-gunto officer's sword and scabbard. The hilt has the standard navy style gilded copper kai-gunto fittings. It has brown tape binding over black same (ray skin) and three cherry blos...REL41096
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Japanese Navy Kai-gunto Broken Sword: Major D.G. Kennedy, Coastwatcher
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Japanese Kai-gunto sword broken in three pieces. The hilt has the standard Japanese Navy guilded brass fittings of a fushi, kabuto-gane and cherry blossom menuki under the brown handle binding over bl...RELAWM30907
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JAPANESE OFFICERS HANDING THEIR SWORDS TO AN AUSTRALIAN OFFICER OF 6 DIVISION. LT-GEN H. ADACHI, ...
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JAPANESE OFFICERS HANDING THEIR SWORDS TO AN AUSTRALIAN OFFICER OF 6 DIVISION. LT-GEN H. ADACHI, COMD 18 JAPANESE ARMY IN NEW GUINEA, FORMALLY SURRENDERED TO MAJ-GEN H.C.H. ROBERTSON, GOC 6 DIVISION, ...096234
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Japanese Pattern 1886 Cavalry Trooper's Sword and Scabbard
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Japanese Trooper's sword and scabbard. The hilt has a small sheet steel D shape guard with a checkered steel back strap and plain pommel. The guard is stamped with the triple interlocked rings symbol ...REL/16724
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Japanese Shin-Gunto Officer's Sword and Scabbard : Brigadier J Field, 7 (Militia) Brigade, Australian Army
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Maker: Unknown
Japanese Shin-gunto Army officer's sword and scabbard. The hilt has the standard army style gilded brass Shin-gunto fittings with cherry blossom menuki (hilt ornament) on each side of the handle under...REL34475
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Japanese Sword Scabbard
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Steel Japanese Imperial Army sword scabbard with a brown leather cover laced up at the throat and a single loose ring on a band.RELAWM27426.002
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Japanese Wakizashi Blade
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Japanese wakizashi blade. It is described by Kotoken Kajihara the Japanese polisher in 1984 as: "This sword blade has no fault. Both Jihada and Hamon are good. The inscribed signature on the tang was ...RELAWM32820.002
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Japanese Wakizashi Sword Blade : Surrendered by Abe Tadaichi, Imperial Japanese Navy Intelligence Service, to Major Phillips at Halmahera.
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Japanese Wakizashi Sword Blade with a single peg hole in the tang and a two character signature. The Japanese polisher Kotoken Kajihara described this blade in 1983 as: "Jihada and Hamon are good. Swo...RELAWM31957.002
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Japanese Wakizashi Sword Mountings
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Japanese wakizashi sword mountings. The hilt is grey leather covered over wood with a plain ribbed fushi but the binding, menuki and kashira are missing.The round tsuba is plain iron with a pierced le...RELAWM32820.001
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JESSELTON, NORTH BORNEO 1945-09-28. 2/32ND BATTALION. SWORDS WERE TAKEN FROM THIS JAPANESE ...
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JESSELTON, NORTH BORNEO 1945-09-28. 2/32ND BATTALION. SWORDS WERE TAKEN FROM THIS JAPANESE OCCUPIED BUILDING, FORMERLY THE CUSTOMS HOUSE AND LOADED ONTO A JEEP OF THE AUSTRALIAN SURRENDER PARTY. (PHOT...120774
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JESSELTON, NORTH BORNEO 1945-09-28. 2/32ND BATTALION. SWORDS WERE TAKEN FROM THIS JAPANESE ...
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JESSELTON, NORTH BORNEO 1945-09-28. 2/32ND BATTALION. SWORDS WERE TAKEN FROM THIS JAPANESE OCCUPIED BUILDING, FORMERLY THE CUSTOMS HOUSE AND LOADED ONTO A JEEP OF THE AUSTRALIAN SURRENDER PARTY. (PHOT...120775
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KARKAR, NEW GUINEA. 1944-05-27. NX131536 PRIVATE W.R. CLARKE (1), AND NX156225 LANCE-SERGEANT ...
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KARKAR, NEW GUINEA. 1944-05-27. NX131536 PRIVATE W.R. CLARKE (1), AND NX156225 LANCE-SERGEANT C.J. JOYCE (2), MEMBERS OF THE 35TH INFANTRY BATTALION, HOLD A JAPANESE FLAG AND SWORD WHICH THEY DISCOVER...073608
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KENINGAU, BRITISH NORTH BORNEO 23RD SEPTEMBER 1945. TAKING THE SWORD OF SURRENDER FROM THE SENIOR ...
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KENINGAU, BRITISH NORTH BORNEO 23RD SEPTEMBER 1945. TAKING THE SWORD OF SURRENDER FROM THE SENIOR JAPANESE OFFICER AT THE KENINGAU CAMP ARE (L. TO R.) FLIGHT LIEUTENANT (ACTING SQUADRON LEADER) E.V. (...P00014.008
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KOEPANG, TIMOR. 1946-02-07. LIEUTENANT SUEMI WADA, A SUSPECTED JAPANESE WAR CRIMINAL, IS ACCUSED ...
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Maker: Davis, Keith Benjamin
KOEPANG, TIMOR. 1946-02-07. LIEUTENANT SUEMI WADA, A SUSPECTED JAPANESE WAR CRIMINAL, IS ACCUSED OF ATTACKING A NATIVE WITH A SWORD FOR HAVING GIGGLED IN HIS PRESENCE. WADA WAS LATER SENT TO DARWIN FO...125751
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KOEPANG, TIMOR, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. 1945-09-11. BEARING COLONEL KAIDA TATSUICHI, COMMANDER ...
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Maker: Harrison, John Thomas
KOEPANG, TIMOR, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. 1945-09-11. BEARING COLONEL KAIDA TATSUICHI, COMMANDER OF THE JAPANESE 4TH TANK REGIMENT IN TIMOR, AND OTHER JAPANESE SIGNATORIES TO THE SURRENDER ON BOARD HMA...OG3478
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KOEPANG, TIMOR, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. 1945-09-11. JAPANESE COMMANDER, COLONEL KAIDA TATSUICHI, ...
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Maker: Harrison, John Thomas
KOEPANG, TIMOR, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. 1945-09-11. JAPANESE COMMANDER, COLONEL KAIDA TATSUICHI, SALUTES AFTER HANDING HIS SWORD TO BRIGADIER L. G. H. DYKE CBE DSO, 33RD BRIGADE (NOT SEEN), AS PART O...OG3481
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Kuala Belait, North West Borneo. 20 September 1945. Major A. J. Hill, Brigade Major, 20th ...
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Kuala Belait, North West Borneo. 20 September 1945. Major A. J. Hill, Brigade Major, 20th Australian Infantry Brigade, taking charge of surrendered Japanese swords at the Surrender Ceremony at 20th Br...030267/21