Help Reading Japanese? (Inscription on WW2 Officer Sword)

[kangsta 50]

Hello Surly, I have a Japanese Shin Gunto Type 98 Army Officer Sword from WW2.  Each blade is engraved with the name of the person that made it. Can anyone identify this name for me please?  There is a list of known sword makers somewhere and the value can vary based upon who made it.  I'm pretty sure it's not Turd Ferguson but I've been wrong before. Thanks.

 

[NeverMarryAStripper 21872]

Tuld Felguson

[0xdeadbeef 1645]

I don't read Japanese, but I sharpened the image a bit and asked Google Lens to translate

Google Lens says:

Sada

Ji

[deadshank 24652]

Mom

South Austin

[Fudge Nuggets 19186]

It says drink your Ovaltine. 

[Kennythetiger 9374]

23 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

It says drink your Ovaltine. 

Son of a bitch 

[NeverMarryAStripper 21872]

Shouldn't that be roundtine?

[High Plains Drifter 11024]

 

My Japanese is a little rusty, but I think it says:

 

"Round eye who draw this sword get balls chopped off"

 

something like that.

Edited April 26, 2022 by High Plains Drifter

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

I'm pretty sure it's.....Die round eye, yankee, faggot....  Those Nipponese were some racist mo'fos...

[ztejas 43411]

[Prepuce of Doom 21052]

I bought this old ceremonial (and possibly cursed?) sword off of eBay about 20 years ago. 

The Spanish translates to, "when I am trapped in the middle of the ocean, I will build a bridge from the ribs of a Chinaman and the blood of a hero" 

Pretty fucking metal. 

[Fudge Nuggets 19186]

2 hours ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

Pretty fucking metal. 

Actually it could stand to be buffed a bit.

[South Austin 52443]

What the fuck is a frush?

[Grade of D as in David 13253]

3 hours ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

I bought this old ceremonial (and possibly cursed?) sword off of eBay about 20 years ago. 

The Spanish translates to, "when I am trapped in the middle of the ocean, I will build a bridge from the ribs of a Chinaman and the blood of a hero" 

Pretty fucking metal. 

I'm assuming this is what you carve your pumpkins with.

[Bevo 13560]

I think it says, "This sword commemorates the nearly fatal 1981 halftime attack of an SMU cheerleader by the Aggie Corp".

[Pato del Muerto 52485]

I hope that’s the tang and not the blade

[ScottS 1061]

Hecho en Mexico

[Zepol87 9185]

I love this place

[254512 236]

Says Hattori Hanzo, you should have taken better care of it.

[kangsta 50]

1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I hope that’s the tang and not the blade

Yes. It's in great condition overall actually. Also have a near mint type 19 Kyu-Gunto officer ceremonial sword. Grandfather brought them back from occupation duty. 

I appreciate all the replies and the serious reply. After some research today I learned the symbols are actually Kanji and there are  10,000+ variations of them. And therefore I also learned that Surly was not really the best place to ask about this.   But I have found an excellent forum of Japanese sword nerds who shall guide me through this journey. 

[Sam Lin 3550]

20 minutes ago, kangsta said:

And therefore I also learned that Surly was not really the best place to ask about this. 

What was the clue?

[Guest]

Loosely translated, it says, "When you see American air dragon, it's gonna get hotter'n fuck; so fall on this you noble subject"

[Damor 1236]

Top is Matsumura Fishworks, and the bottom is Tamaribuchi Heavy Manufacturing Concern, clearly dating this piece to their earliest joint ventures.

[Jerry Callo 8695]

11 hours ago, kangsta said:

But I have found an excellent forum of Japanese sword nerds who shall guide me through this journey. 

You have to refer to then as Sensei, don't you?

[gsoda3 3245]

in chinese it's zhen zhi which means loyal ruler.  kanji characters sometimes will mean the same thing in chinese but more often than not i've found they mean something entirely different.  

[South Austin 52443]

4 hours ago, Jerry Callo said:

You have to refer to then as Sensei, don't you?

[52-80 19143]

On 4/26/2022 at 7:08 PM, kangsta said:

Hello Surly, I have a Japanese Shin Gunto Type 98 Army Officer Sword from WW2.  Each blade is engraved with the name of the person that made it. Can anyone identify this name for me please?  There is a list of known sword makers somewhere and the value can vary based upon who made it.  I'm pretty sure it's not Turd Ferguson but I've been wrong before. Thanks.

 

 

Not known to many, but there are actually many different types of Japanese scripts: chiefly Hiragana, Katagana, and Kanji.  The first 2 are syllabic - meaning each character represents a phonetic sound.  Visually, you can recognize them by more blocky and rigid shapes.  Kanji characters represent words or meanings, and in writing tend to be ornate and complex.

Anyway, the inscription on the sword reads, "Made in China"

[TwiceHorn 31436]

I could probably google this up, but I'll ask here for the sake of conversation.

Hand-forged, ground, and polished Japanese swords are a marvel of craftsmanship and cutting instrument design.

Their mass-produced military weapons were functional hot garbage.

Which type of thing are officer's swords like that?

[Rudiger 1160]

It says “handle goes here.”

[Jkwellborn 6686]

Says Hattori Hanzo, you should have taken better care of it.

Can’t believe it took nearly 20 replies.

[ztejas 43411]

On 4/28/2022 at 7:15 AM, TwiceHorn said:

I could probably google this up, but I'll ask here for the sake of conversation.

Hand-forged, ground, and polished Japanese swords are a marvel of craftsmanship and cutting instrument design.

Their mass-produced military weapons were functional hot garbage.

Which type of thing are officer's swords like that?

Maybe you already did some of your own research but I think the officer swords fell somewhere in-between. They weren't "mass" produced but they weren't artisanly crafted either. 

[Bevo&Pevo 5120]

Will it cut an exhaust pipe in half and still slice a tomato?

[RexWilson 1346]

Ito was here

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