A Japanese Boy's sword (Wakizashi), late Muromachi period, the blade signed 'Hiro Tsugu', with shark skin and gilt metal mounted handle and tsuba, the lacquer scabbard with inset dagger, length 60 cm
Japanese Wakizashi, with shagreen and linen wrapped handle, above a shaped tsuba, with curved blade, inscribed 'Ni-gatzu-Hi' meaning 'gift in February' and was presented in 1906, set with scabbard in black lacquer, total length 53 cm
A Japanese type 98 military shin-gunto katana, with cloth bound ray skin covered hilt, the tang with incised and painted characters. Some small chips to blade edge. Blade length 89 cm. Overall 106 cm.
An old Japanese katana sword blade in shirasaya. displaying a fairly straight hamon, in good polish. The tang with single hole and unsigned. With old Japanese certificate In wooden box with silk bag. Blade L.61 cm.
Magnificent Japanese Edo period Shinshinto Wakizashi, unsigned ubu blade 31 cm magasa, width at hamachi 0.6 cm, moto haba 2.7 cm, gunome pattern hamon, indistinct boshi, wooden koshirae with high relief carved wrap around design of two dragons with finely…
Japanese Katana, with a curved blade with incised makers marks, above a square tsuba accented with flowers, with leather wrapped handle and sheath, length 100 cm
Japanese Katana sword, curved steel blade with engraved maker's mark to shaft, late Meiji period comes with leather bound wooden scabbard, fish skin and cord bound handle grip, complete with tsuba, surface rust to blade, 81.5 cm blade
Attributed to Den Kashu Kagemitsu, Ko-Wakizashi, Japanese Muromachi period (1336 -1573), 16th century, naginata-naoshi-zukuri, iori-mune, itame hada, ko-gunome midare hamon, midare-komi boshi, ubu nakago with one hole, in Shirasaya with sayagaki,…
A Japanese wakasashi, the mumei (nameless sword) with straight yakiba, brass habaki, plain copper tsuba, tape bound lacquered tsuka and fittings and lacquered leather patterned saya (scabbard). 62 cm, blade 47 cm.
Katana Echizen Seki with full Higo mounts, c 1658 with papers early Kanbun: Shinto period (1658-1683) katana, mumei (shortened tang), 66.3 cm nagasa (cutting edge), 3 mm mihaba, 8 mm sori. Flawless blade with koitame hada (tight wood grain pattern…
Japanese Wakizashi 19th century forged blade, the nakago (tang) unmarked, in a timber and leather covered sheath, with faults, shortened to current, length. Condition: Quite a bit of damage to sheath and scabbard, missing handle and tarnish to blade,…
A 19th century Japanese sword fitting Menuki tie slide, circa 1820 - 1920, an interesting and famous subject depicting Kinko riding his giant carp, mixed metals: copper, silver and shibuichi, with silver backing and slide, for European market, length 5.9…
Japanese Tanto, Reshaped katana blade, 32 cm long single edge with fuller along back edge from copper hibachi to run out at reshaped tip. Unsigned cut down tang. Hilt tape boundary skin with single silver menuki, kashira missing. Old heavy square tsuba,…
Japanese sword blade with temperline/hamon, bronze tsuba with ray skin handle/ tsuka, fine menuki with plain black lacquered scabbard/saya 63 cm blade length
Japanese sword long blade with signature to tang, bronze tsuba with decoration of fisherman in boat below Mt Fuji with silver and gold highlights, wooden saya with braid binding (replacement mekugi) 75 cm blade length
A Japanese Shin Gunto katana, with leather covered scabbard, four character marks to the blade at the ricasso, stamped to the habaki '60086'. Overall length 104 cm.
An old Japanese tanto, unsigned 12 1/4 inch x 1 inch single edged blade with copper habaki. Rebound hilt with single silver menuki, old dragon embossed fushi and plain copper kashira. Oval steel plate tsuba. Black lacquered scabbard 20 3/4 inch length. GC.
An old Japanese katana sword, the blade with some spotting displaying a visible temper line, the tang signed with multiple character marks, the bronze tsuba with demonic and other figure within a landscape, gilt highlights, character marks to the interior…
Japanese, Type 30 A bayonet, 1897/1935, Tokyo/Kokura arsenal mark, 15 1/2 inch fullered steel blade in grease, some staining, hook quillon with flattened spur tip,1.5 cm muzzle ring, contoured wood grips, (decay to one) oval screws, round bird head pommel…
Shinto period Japanese Katana Monju-ha tengai school with NBTHK hozon kanteisho, Flawless long blade in high quality polish with silver habaki in fine shirasaya. Nagasa of 69.2 cm, Motohaba 3 cm, (unsigned due to shortened tang), has authenticity…
Bokken and Shinai, Japanese training swords, the bokken in hardwood, and the shinai in flexible bamboo, length of bokken 101 cm, length of shinai 116 cm
An old Japanese katana sword, visible temper line to blade, the tang with engraved character marks, military leather stitched scabbard. Blade length 54.5 cm
Ujifusa signed Owari Province Katana the original Tang of gentle kurijiri shape, in shirasaya. Forging is mokume-hada, the hamon is notare mixed with gunome, & the boshi is midarekomi with hakikake. Mounted in a custom made plain wood shirasaya. The blade…
Edo Wakizashi by Kawachi Daijo Fujiwara Kuni Sada Aizu Japanese province (1644-1681) ubu nakago, having an unusally broad blade with long kissaki. Condition: excellent, the blade in full polish set in a shirasaya, with a well defined hamon & hada, & a…
Koto to Shinto Uchigatana in snakeskin with traditional military itomaki-no-tachi mounts of iron in koto style, with patterns in iron mimicking snake skin scales. Snakeskin covered saya continuing under silk wrap on tsuka, with large shakudo dragon menuki…
A Japanese wakizashi in koshirae attributed to Harima daijo Fujiwara Shigetaka II (Shimosaka School c.1661-1672), with Juho-Token-Kenkyukai kentai papers (and translation). With signature and inscriptions to tang. Overall length 64 cm
Japanese mid 19th century Wakizashi in full Japanese polish. The sword is a scaled down version of a katana in formal handachi mounts, the blade has a high quality habaki of black shakudo with gold edging. The tsuba is Yogoro school moko gata form, in…
A scarce last ditch Japanese type 30 straight cross guard squared birds head pommel bayonet with its exceptionally rare wooden scabbard. Unfullered blade. Locking catch works but stud is ground down to be level with the pommel surface, this is clearly a…
A scarce last ditch Japanese type 30 straight cross guard squared birds hea pommel bayonet with its exceptionally rare wooden scabbard. Unfullered blade with original factory sharpening and 99 per cent of the original blue finish, cross guard, tang and…
An Ilang Iban Parang: tribal sword with sheath Many Japanese troops fell victim to deadly darts from native blowpipes. They were almost always be-headed by parangs such as this type. The handle is carved from deer horn and the hair symbolises beheading.…
A Barong Bajau Parang: tribal sword with sheath. This tribal sword originates from tribal areas near Jambongan and was used in the beheading of some Japanese soldiers details Chap. 16 of Jack Sue's book blood on Borneo both Jack and Lt Don Harlem enjoyed…
A Japanese Katana sword with scabbard. This sword was taken from a 20,000 ton Jap crude oil tanker that had been deliberately beached following a torpedo and aerial attack. Jack and his team of native guerrilla fighters arrived shortly after to inspect…
A Japanese Katana sword with scabbard. This sword was taken from a Jap Captain of the dreaded Kempei Tei following a raid upon a 20 man Jap garrison at Dampirit, on the Kudat peninsula of British north Borneo 1945. This item along with others including…
Two various Japanese swords. Leather bound handles with crudely cast brass pommels & tsubas. Impressed characters to blades. Leather scabbards. Length 94 cm. (average)
Japanese Gassan Sadayoshi, attributed blade and lacquer mounts, 19th century, the blade of 'hirazukuri (sunnobi tanto), hada' of 'ko-itame', temper edge of boxed shape 'choji' with 'ji-nie' and 'ashi', a carving of 'gomabashi' and a sanskrit character,…
Japanese Kashu Kiyomitsu tanto with its lacquer mounts, 18th century (blade), the blade 'hirazukuri', with 'itame hada', the temper edge of 'suguha', with a carving of 'gomabashi', signed 'Kiyomitsu', in 'shirasaya' with a 'Nihon Bijutsu' token club paper…
Japanese Short Sword: Old blade with signed Tang, Edo period tsubu with remains of gold inlay, scabbard old but painted over original lacquer. 64 cm. Fair condition