N° d'objet
4301.14
Titre
Japanese NCO’s type 95 Military sword, Shin-guntō
Créateur
Description
Japanese NCO’s type 95 Military sword, Shin-guntō from the Shōwa period (1926-45). Sugata (configuration): shinogi-zukuri (longitudinal ridgeline) with shallow tori-zori (even curve) with medium kissaki (blade tip). Hamon (tempering pattern): suguha (straight).
Nakago (tang): 2 mekugi-ana (peg holes), mumei (unsigned).
Koshirae (mounting): polished metal saya (scabbard), gilt copper habaki (blade collar), plain polish mokko tsuba (quatrefoil hand guard), wooden tsuka (hilt) with soiled itō (braiding) over same (rayskin) and standard military copper alloy fittings of menuki (hilt grips) and kabutogane (pommel).
The sword is unusual in that NCO swords do not usually have wooden hilts. The scabbard and hand guard and possibly the blade itself appear to have been polished, the scabbard has also lost its leather cover. Two peg holes in the hilt indicate several mountings of the blade which may well be older than the military mounting.
Date
1939 - 1945 1926 - 1989
Période de création
World War Two, 1939-1945, Shōwa period
Matériel
Dimensions
- Length: Sword 945 mm
- Length: Blade 675 mm
- Width: mm
- Width: mm
- Length: Scabbard 715 mm
- Width: Scabbard 55 mm