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1 antique Japanese kozuka handle available.  This exceptional kozuka handle is several centuries old.  This fine kozuka/side knife handle would make an important addition to any collection.

This fine shakudo and gold gilt kozuka measures 3 3/4″ (9.5cm) by just over 9/16″ wide (1.4 cm).

1 antique World War II Imperial Japanese Army Officer’s sword tassel available.  This hard-to-find original Company Grade Officer’s tassel is in rare mint condition, and would make an important addition to any higher-grade Japanese military-mounted sword. 

This silk tassel is blue and brown in color.  This WW2 tassel has the proper smell of age. 

1 rare antique World War II Japanese kogatana side/utility knife available.  A kogatana made during World War II, or in the decade or two prior, like this one, is very rare.  This gendai kogatana was made by the Third Generation Sukemaru.  This fine kogatana/side knife would make an important addition to any collection.

This World War II kogatana is larger than the usual Samurai kogatana.  It measures 8 7/16″ (21.4 cm) overall.  The blade itself measures 5 5/16″ (13.5 cm).  This beefy kogatana measures 9/16″ (1.4 cm) wide by 1/8″ thick (.3 cm). 

The blade also has an inscription on it that I can’t translate.  There are collectors out there that can perhaps read inscriptions (takes a better command of the Japanese language than I have).

This fine kogatana comes nicely mounted in shira-saya.

StCroixBlades.com pays cash for Japanese samurai swords, sword fittings, tsubas, menuki, fuchi/kashira, yari, armor, and entire collections.  You can reach us at 715-557-1688.

1 rare motif antique Japanese kozuka handle available.  This kozuka handle is several centuries old.  This fine kozuka/side knife handle would make an important addition to any collection.

This kozuka measures 3 7/8″ (9.8cm) by 11/16″ wide (1.7cm). 

1 hard-to-find WW2 Japanese Army Field Grade/Colonel’s sword belt.  This fine Colonel’s belt would make an important addition to any collection.

This fine WW2 Japanese Colonel sword belt is made of black leather and red felt.  The buckle is gilted in gold.

Have a collection of old Samurai arrow points?  Contact us at 715-557-1688 to get an offer on your collection. 

1 antique Japanese samurai arrow point available.  This is a rare form for a Japanese arrow head.  This desirable Japanese yanone/arrowhead would make a fine addition to any collection.

The ancient 17th-18th century Japanese yajiri/arrowpoint would have been used by true Samurai.  This large arrowpoint measures 9 1/4″ (23.5 cm), including the tang.  The point itself measures 2 1/16″ (5.2 cm) by 1 5/16″ wide (3.3 cm).

The hamon/temper line is visible along both blade edges. 

The tang/nakago is marked with a number ‘X124’.  I have seen this very style of marking before.  This point was either in a museum, or was in a known collection–perhaps the Compton collection? 

1 antique World War II Imperial Japanese Navy Samurai Officer’s gendai kai-gunto sword.  This World War II Japanese Naval Officer’s sword, with its premium sharkskin saya, would make an important addition to any collection.

This sword was traditionally-made.  Note the nie crystals in the blade photos.  There is no arsenal mark on the nakago.  This sword is unsigned.  The blade measures 23 3/8″ (59.4 cm) from blade tip to the notch in the blade spine. 

All fittings have matching assembly numbers–the number stamped on each is ‘9’.

1 antique World War II Japanese Army Samurai Officer’s gendai shin-gunto sword.  This sword was made by Kaneyoshi.  This fine World War II Japanese Army Officer’s katana would make an important addition to any collection.

This sword has the rare hot stamp indicating the blade was made with a ‘new’ method of construction–the Kobuse method of construction. 

According to page 65 of Slough’s book, this stamp reads ‘Jitsu yo shinan toroku, Dai nichi ichi roku go ku go, Hotetsu tanren toin’.  This translates in English to “Registration of new utility design, Item number ______, Wrapped steel (Kobuse method of construction) forged sword-stamp“. 

This sword was signed by Kaneyoshi.  This sword has a desirable wavy temper line. 

The tsuba is Heianjo from the 1600’s A.D. 

The blade measures 26 3/16″ (66.5 cm) from blade tip to notch in the blade spine. 

1 antique 18th-19th Century Japanese Samurai kozuka.  This ultra fine antique side knife handle is exceptional. 

The inscription reads Nihon Kaikoku Saigoku Junrei (Traveling in Japan pilgrimage Saigoku [in Kumamoto]. 

This kozuka measures 3 3/16″ long (9.7 cm) by 9/16″ (1.4 cm) wide. 

St. Croix Blades purchases Estates of Japanese swords, arrow points, armor, etc.  Consignment of Estate items is also welcomed. 

1 antique Japanese samurai arrow point available.  This arrow point was made to look like a yari.  This is a rare form for a Japanese arrow head.  This desirable Japanese yanone/arrowhead would make a fine addition to any collection.

The ancient 17th-18th century Japanese yajiri/arrowpoint would have been used by true Samurai.  This arrowpoint measures 9″ (22.9 cm), including the tang.  The point itself measures 1 5/8″ (4.1 cm) by 1 1/8″ wide (2.9 cm).

The tang/nakago is marked with a number ‘X155’.  I have seen this very style of marking before.  This point was either in a museum, or was in a known collection.

St. Croix Blades handles the sale of Estate collections of Japanese swords, arrowpoints, armor, etc.      Call us at 715-557-1688, or email us at mbrice@stcroixblades.com to set up the Expert Sale of your Estate items.

1 antique 18th/19th Century Japanese sword tsuka.  This fine Samurai sword handle has a rare family mon fuchi.  This Samurai family mon centuries later was used unfortunately by the Nazis. 

This katana/tachi tsuka measures 10 1/16″ in length.  The fuchi/kashira doesn’t have to match with a fuchi like this sword handle has. 

The opening in the fuchi that fits the sword blade measures 1 1/8″ long (2.9 cm) by 5/16″ wide (0.8 cm). 

This Japanese Samurai sword handle, with its rare motif family mon fuchi, would make a rare addition to any collection–and would make a fine handle for an antique Japanese katana or tachi. 

St. Croix Blades BUYS COLLECTIONS OF JAPANESE SWORDS.  Email us here or call using the ‘Contact Us’ info above. 

1 vintage WW2 Japanese Army Officer’s sword made by Tomoyoshi available.  The Tomoyoshi katana has an outstanding fiery hamon/temper line.  A WW II sword like this (with its exceptional temper line) doesn’t come along every day.  This premium star stamp Japanese gendai katana would make an important addition to any collection.

This fine sword is signed ‘Osaka ju Izumi Tomoyoshi tsukuru kore’.  The reverse side of the nakago is dated.  This fine sword measures 26 5/8″ (67.6 cm) (measured properly from the blade tip to the notch in the blade spine).

This traditionally-made gendai katana has an expertly water-tempered wavy, fire-like hamon.  This Japanese WW II Army Officer’s katana is in 1944 shin-gunto mounts.