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Koa Isshin Mantetsu
Spring 1943 Koa Isshin Mantetsu (serial HI 624) — among the last of the recorded 1943 Mantetsu blades, with the muji-hada and suguha hamon that define the type.
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Spring 1943 Koa Isshin Mantetsu (serial HI 624) — among the last of the recorded 1943 Mantetsu blades, with the muji-hada and suguha hamon that define the type.
A matched samurai kabuto and menpo in the Tōhoku regional style of the mid-to-late Edo period — a complete head-and-face armour set with the dark lacquer character of the northern provinces.
A family-heirloom Shin Guntō with a saya-label attribution to the Higo Dōtanuki line — the Kumamoto school of robust, battle-functional blades favoured by Katō Kiyomasa.
A katana signed 輝秀 (Teruhide) — the niji-mei of Musashi Ishidō Teruhide, last of the Ishidō Korekazu line — in characterful civilian koshirae bearing a manji family crest.
Spring 1941 Kōa Isshin Mantetsu, eto-dated Kanoto-Mi (辛巳) and signed Mantetsu saku kore — an earlier, more formally inscribed companion to our 1943 example.
Signed and dated in 1861, made to order by the smith Kawai Hisayuki in his seventy-sixth year, on a shimmering abalone-inlaid presentation shaft.
A Second World War Japanese sword carried by a gunzoku, a civilian official of the military: a Seki shōwatō signed Kuriki Kanemasa, in a cherry-blossom civilian mounting.
A Second World War bring-back: a Japanese blade signed Kanemichi, in its army officer's shin-guntō mounts with a leather field cover, accompanied by the original 1945 HQ Malaya Command war-trophy authorisation.
A Meiji-era Japanese Army officer's parade saber, Type 19 (1886) pattern, with a family mon on the backstrap and its bright nickel-plated dress scabbard still in excellent, untouched condition.
A late-war Type 3 (Rinji Seishiki) army guntō signed Kanematsu (兼松) of the Seki tradition, dated November 1944 — complete koshirae showing field wear.
Mumei kotō-period blade with a clean gunome hamon — remounted at least three times across centuries of use, now presented as a bare blade.
A shin-guntō koshirae with original leather combat cover and wooden saya. Single hanger, two leather seppa (one acting as cover retainer) and one metal seppa, wooden insert in place of the blade. Likely a Gunzoku fitting given the absence of cherry-blossom on the kabutogane.
Meiji-era Japanese police sabre with its original black sword tassel intact — the tassels are usually the first fitting to be lost.
Meiji-era Japanese cavalry sabre (kyū-guntō, serial 66729) — clean, complete pattern with original scabbard and fittings.
A complete Imperial Japanese Navy kaiguntō tsuba and seppa ensemble: central gilt-rim tsuba, two distinctive rayed sunburst seppa, and two smaller spacer pieces. Original wartime brass with age patina.
Original brown leather sword knot from a WW2 Japanese NCO sword — intact, with one break in the cord. The leather usually rots beyond repair.
A plain-mounted aikuchi-style tantō, unsigned and unexamined in the tang, with a tired polish — a straightforward entry-level piece.
A modern reproduction of the brown leather Imperial Japanese Army NCO sword knot — correct in material and form, for completing a Type 95 or NCO Shin Guntō display.