WW2 Japanese Naval Officers Sword..Signature Help??

Any help appreciated!

 

It looks machine made...........https://www.japaneseswordindex.com/military.htm

 

Good photos. Maybe KH will show up to translate both sets of marks, the engraved ones and those painted on. The very coarse finish of the blade suggests very rushed, end-of-War production, last operation done with either grinding wheel or files rather than the laborious hand-polishing-to-mirror-finish of traditional Japanese swords.

 

All I can tell you is that Japanese swords can bring some really big money if made by the right person. I have a customer who talks about 5 and 6 figure amounts for his swords. Belongs to several Japanese Sword groups and has authored two books.

There are a lot of sites for Japanese sword collecting.
Maybe these will help start.

https://www.japaneseswordindex.com/repro.htm
https://www.japaneseswordindex.com/advice.htm

http://swordlinks.com/

 

The blade looks good, the photo with the crosshatching is showing the "nakago" section with the handle removed.

 

yes it does.....but a close up of the blade would be nice.

 

Thanks Holly....I believe this is a machine made stainless steel "Kai Gunto"

Thanks for the link

 

remember ..this is a WW2 military weapon....not an 18th century Samurai sword..

 

Takeyasu 武泰.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/japanese-ww-ii-naval-officer-sword-133023087

Google for more.

 

Thank you KH