Original WWII Japanese Army Officer P-1944 Rinji Seikishi Shin-Gunto Katana Sword by TOSHIHARU - Dated 1945 Spanish Military Equipment and stamped many of the

and stamped many of the guns he sold

James Everitt

It is stamped above the grip on the frame and on the back of the cylinder with the initials R

while the barrel band at the muzzle is definitely silver

Troops from total annihilation: that is the honorable surrender of the encircled town

Original WWII Japanese Army Officer P-1944 Rinji Seikishi Shin-Gunto Katana Sword by TOSHIHARU - Dated 1945 Spanish Military Equipment and stamped many of theOriginal Item: Only One Available. Purchased recently at a large military auction, this is a very nice late war style mid grade Japanese officer Katana, with an arsenal made blade. It is in the standard 1944 pattern fittings, offically 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