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Japanese Army Katana Sword Bamboo Surrender Block
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Japanese Army katana sword and scabbard, with bamboo surrender block. The hilt has a cotton tape binding and is covered in a tight leather cover, that is cross-laced through metal eyelets. It has a ka...REL38199.002
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Japanese Army Katana Sword Leather Grip
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Japanese Army katana sword and scabbard, with bamboo surrender block. The hilt has a cotton tape binding and is covered in a tight leather cover, that is cross-laced through metal eyelets. It has a ka...REL38199.001
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Japanese Army NCO's shin-gunto sword and scabbard : Major General Sir W J V Windeyer, 20 Brigade
Technology
Maker: Kokura Arsenal
Japanese Army NCO's shin-gunto sword and scabbard. The hilt (tsuka) is made of cast aluminium, shaped to resemble the officer's type which had rayskin hilts, cherry blossom hilt ornaments (menuki) and...REL38999
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Japanese Army Officer's Kyu-gunto Sword and Scabbard
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Japanese Officer's kyu-gunto sword and scabbard. The brass hilt has a large D shape knucklebow with a brown and blue tassel tied to it near the pommel. The grips are polished white rayskin, bound with...REL29648
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Japanese Army Officer's Shin-gunto Sword
Technology
Japanese Army officer's sword. Shin-gunto mountings with a polished brass dragon design guard (tsuba). The grip has a double collar near the guard, one standard military and the other in brass with a ...REL30613
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Japanese Army Officer's Shin-gunto Sword and Scabbard
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Japanese Army officer's sword. Shin-gunto standard mountings with cherry blossom menuki on each side of the handle under the binding. The habaki on the blade is gilt plated copper. The blade has a goo...REL29649
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Japanese Army Officer's Shin-gunto sword and scabbard
Technology
Maker: Kanehiro
Japanese Army Officer's Shin-gunto sword and scabbard with leather battle guard. The hilt has the standard army style gilded brass shin-gunto fittings, brown cotton binding tape over the rayskin grip ...REL38896
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Japanese Army Officer's Shin-gunto sword and scabbard
Technology
Maker: Kanezane, Asano
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...REL37380.001
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Japanese Army Officer's Shin-gunto Sword and Scabbard : Major J D Bowtell, 12/40 Battalion
Technology
Maker: Kaneshige
Japanese Shin-gunto Officer's Sword and scabbard and two attached surrender labels. The hilt has the standard army style gilded brass Shin-gunto fittings with cherry blossom menuki (hilt ornament) on ...REL36469
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Japanese Army Officer's Shin-gunto Sword and Scabbard with wooden surrender block
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Japanese Shin-gunto Officer's Sword and scabbard, accompanied by an attached surrender block with black Japanese characters. The hilt has the standard army style gilded brass Shin-gunto fittings with ...REL38784
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Japanese Army Officer's Shin-gunto Sword Mountings
Technology
Japanese shin-gunto sword mountings. Standard Japanese Army brass fittings of brass tsuba, six seppa and menuki. The hilt binding has been laquered and the sarute (pommel loop) is missing. The handle ...REL/07079.001
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Japanese Army Officer's Sword and Scabbard
Technology
Japanese Army Officer's shin-gunto sword and scabbard. The hilt is a late Second World War type lacquered binding with blackened iron fushi kashira mountings, cherry blossom menuki and a plain oval di...REL30880
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Japanese Army Officer's Sword : Imperial Japanese Army
Technology
Japanese Army officer's sword. Shin-gunto mountings with a good quality pierced guard (tsuba). The military cherry blossom menuki on each side of the handle under the binding has a family crest (mon) ...REL30875.001
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Japanese Army Shin-gunto Sword and Scabbard : Lieutenant General Adachi, Commander of the XVIII Japanese Army
Technology
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 on each side of the handle under the brown bindi...RELAWM31261
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Japanese Katana : Imperial Japanese Army
Technology
Maker: Kanemune
Japanese Army officer's Shin-gunto sword. The hilt has standard fittings with cherry blossom menuki on each side of the handle under the binding. The tsuba (guard) is a good quality pierced type and t...REL28962
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Japanese Katana Sword Blade
Technology
Japanese Sword Blade. The blade is unsigned and has a single fuller to each side to within 30 mm of the point. The polisher Kotoken Kajihara describes this blade in 1984 as "having a curvature of 1.2 ...REL/07079.002
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Japanese Katana Sword Blade
Technology
Japanese sword blade. The tang is unsigned and is described in 1984 by the Japanese polisher Kotoken Kajihara as: "Shape: Shinogi-Zukuri, Length: 64.8 cm, Curvature: 2.5 cm, Kissaki: Sho-Kissaki, Nak...RELAWM30601.002
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Japanese katana sword with scabbard
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Japanese Army katana sword and scabbard, with bamboo surrender block. The hilt has a cotton tape binding and is covered in a tight leather cover, that is cross-laced through metal eyelets. It has a ka...REL38199
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Japanese Knife : Sergeant K T Bilney, 14/32 Battalion
Technology
Japanese knife having a plain wooden handle attached to tang with a wooden peg. There are three asterisks in black ink on the obverse. The blade is of a Tanto shape with a single edge and a steel haba...REL29723.001
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Japanese Military Shin-gunto Sword Mountings
Technology
Japanese Military Sword Mountings. The hilt has mountings of the Showa (c 1930) period flower pattern Fushi-Kashira. The menuki are a copper crabs with pronounced claws and the tsuba (guard) is an ir...RELAWM30601.001
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Japanese Officer's Sword Scabbard : Imperial Japanese Army
Technology
Japanese Army officer's sword scabbard. Shin-gunto mount in brown painted steel. It is fitted with a brown leather cover.REL30875.002
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Japanese Officer's Sword Scabbard Leather Cover : Imperial Japanese Army
Technology
Japanese Army officer's sword scabbard leather cover. The top securing flap is missing. Papar Borneo 1945 is written in white ink near the suspension ring.REL30875.003
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Japanese Sword Scabbard
Technology
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 Sword Blade : Surrendered by Abe Tadaichi, Imperial Japanese Navy Intelligence Service, to Major Phillips at Halmahera.
Technology
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
Technology
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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Wooden surrender block from Japanese Army officer's sword
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Small block of wood with Japanese characters which indicate that the sword was carried by Yoshinori Nonaka who served with the Japanese 6th Division HQ (South East). On the reverse is handwritten in i...REL37380.002