Original WWII Japanese Army Officer Shin-Gunto Katana Sword with Steel Scabbard - Handmade Blade Category_Snider Rifles & Bayonets and has some designs engraved

and has some designs engraved near the base

but the rest of the traverse and elevation mechanism works great

6th Army patch on left shoulder

With a bore of slightly more than half an inch this little guy surely packed a severe punch back in the day

LOC 3215 as "As Arms Interchangeable

Original WWII Japanese Army Officer Shin-Gunto Katana Sword with Steel Scabbard - Handmade Blade Category_Snider Rifles & Bayonets and has some designs engravedOriginal Item: Only One Available. Purchased directly from a collector, this is a very nice wartime production high grade Japanese officer Katana in the standard pre 1944 Shin Gunto setting. A Gunt (, military sword) is a Japanese sword produced for use by the Japanese army and navy after the end of the samurai era in 1868, when the Meiji Restoration occurred. This is a very nice example, and either saw very little use, or was never issued. The blade