S5E2: Decoding My WW2 Samurai Sword, Relic Bring Back
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You need to stop the corosion on those finger prints from eating that sword. It's been etched by the stupid act of not wiping it clean. Now you need to make sure the etching stops.
The name 祐光 is "Sukemitsu" in Japanese Kanji - many well known swordsmiths have carried this name since the Eido-era, and you can bet quite a few of them would have been conscripted into forging shin-gunto for the military.
The traduction made by the chinese guy is ok for the date but wrong for the era and swordsmith name. He translate in chinese, not japanese. A common mistake.
That blade is not in beautiful condition
I think everyone assumes the blood is Japanese but what if your grandpa or grandpas buddy was battled and bloody and a Japanese soldier in a bonsai charge attacked and the soldier had no choice but to grab the blade and after a brief struggle stopped the threat with his 1911 and took that sword as not even a war trophy but a reminder of how close he came to death.
The technical name of the blade is a Katana.
Garden variety gunto. No big deal.
The name on the sword is the Makers Name.
blades can last much longer than hilts if properly preserved
Kinda hard to watch
This is Type 98 新軍刀 Shin Gunto, Dated 昭和十八年九月(Showa 18 Years 9th Month )1943 September, Maker/Smith 祐光 （Sukemitsu）， his civilian name 福田吉二 （Fukuda Yoshiji), he works as Imperial Japanese Army swordsmith.
GREAT SWORD!!!!!!👍👍👍👍
The mei (inscription on the tang) for japanese sword made during ww2 are often like this one. On the omote side (side of the tang facing outward from you when wearing it) you have the name of the swordsmith who made the sword. On the ura side (side of the tang facing the person who wear the sword) is the date the sword was made. The date can be read this way: In order from top to bottom, the nengo (era of reign of an emperor), the nen (year into the reign of the emperor), the gatsu (month) and the hi (day). so reading from top to bottom on the ura side of this sword : sho wa juu hachi nen kuu gatsu. This means showa era (emperor Hirohito 1926-1989). The emperor always gives a name to the era of his reign, Hirohito chose showa, the term could be roughly understood as meaning "enlightened peace" or in some interpretations "radiant Japan". Hirohito is also known as emperor showa. So we start the date with 1926 or do we ? 1926 is the 1st year of the reign of Hirohito, showa 1, 1936 is showa 11, 1943 is showa 19. The japanese dont want to start counting from the number 1 they want to start with 0, so 1926 (year 1) + 18 is 1944, if we want to start with the number 0 we have to substract 1 year, so 1925 + 18 will be 1943. After sho wa comes juu hachi nen which means 10 , 9 and the word year, so 10 + 8 year, 18 year. That is the 18 years we had to showa 0 (1925) = 1943. The kuu gatsu which means 9 month = september. There is no hi (day) in the signature. So september of 1943.
Time for a lesson in swords.
It is the funniest video. Both are my teachers 🤣🤣🤣
I hope you someday discover if if the fingerprints date correctly
should be easy to find that signature- the name. Just search for makers of shin gunto in that year
The swordsmith is suke mitsu = Sukemitsu. There we 3 swordsmith named Sukemitsu making blades during war time.I do not recognize the signature of this one.
My dad had that exact sword type hanging in his gun cabinet ever since he brother came back from Japan. They were both vets but my uncle went to Japan, my dad elsewhere. Anyway, my dad gave it to my nephew....not even his brother's son. Kills me every time I think about it. They go for about 2500 on Ebay.
Here is something you didn't bring up! There were navy & army Samurai which are different. This one is the army model! It looks to be factory made with the evidence presented. Interesting Samurai sword!