Original WWII Japanese Army Officer P-1944 Rinji Seikishi Shin-Gunto Katana Sword by KIKUHIDE with Scabbard - Dated 1945 NATION and after a brief rest

and after a brief rest

a period Japanese-English Dictionary

so it has really never been touched in almost 150 years

Before the advance

The cap is lined with light brown colored rayon fabric

Original WWII Japanese Army Officer P-1944 Rinji Seikishi Shin-Gunto Katana Sword by KIKUHIDE with Scabbard - Dated 1945 NATION and after a brief restOriginal Item: Only One Available. Purchased recently at a large military show, this is an lovely condition late war style Japanese officer Katana, with an arsenal made blade. It is in the standard 1944 pattern fittings, officially known as the (Rinji Seikishi) or "Special Contingency" version of the Type 98 Shin Gunto ( kyhachi shiki gunt) setting. These fittings, while often called the P 1944, were in fact designed in 1938, but didn't really see