It is World War II from Meiji

In 95 sets of saber 1873, I exhibit a Japanese sword at an open international exposition in Vienna. I showed Japanese technology and mind in the global community. However, as for the demand for new sword, many swordsmiths who played an active part lost a job without most after Law banning private possession of swords in those days. In addition, many celebrated swords began to flow abroad. The government still appoints Sadakazu Gassan, two people of Kanenori Miyamoto as a court artist. I tried for a save of traditional making a sword technology.

On the other hand, Japanese army and navy continued adopting a saber as a main weapon of the officers, and it became common to teach the saber attire of the saber style a Japanese sword, and, besides, the effectiveness of the Japanese sword as the weapon of the round was confirmed by a hand-to-hand fight in the Russo-Japanese War in modern times, and, from evaluation to the advance troop with drawn swords in the Southwestern Rebellion, suitable saber attire was developed by army and navy putting the Japanese sword which assumed the sword attire in the Kamakura era a motif in substitution for the saber attire of the saber style together in the Showa again because feeling of the entering ultranationalism rose (it was it that, however, the many swords of the ancient and modern times when I took the field as a saber at the same time were lost at the battle front).

After Manchurian Incident, the armed forces arms factory and the researcher of some each engines pursued possibility as the equipment of the soldier in not only the attire but also the sword blade. For example, the Japanese swords (a rusted sword "@-resistant) of the stainless steel which a Toshitake sword" corresponding to the intense cold of Manchurian and the navy used various sabers were studied. From the thing which changed one part of the materials / the manufacturing methods of the Japanese sword to the industrial sword which imitated a form of the Japanese sword, various sword blades produced it experimentally, and it was mass-produced. These the special sabers body is referred to "Showa sword" "Shinmura taxpaying farmer" "new Japanese swords", and it is said that there were many things superior to in nature as the weapon depending on a thing than the conventional Japanese sword (even if it is a sword called a celebrated sword commonly). The popular view which was goods of poor quality is still deep-rooted, but these are not the evaluation that is proper except a part with the bad swords which the corrupt supplier sold to the last (goods of poor quality are seen in the early days and last years). The sword blade made in casting theory, an arms factory reaches goods of poor quality theory and is outrageous. I was cheap for an officer warrant officer (the saber beginning combat uniform products were the own expense purchase as private properties), and it was useful as a sword blade usable without regret these, and it was provided the rank and file as an article supplied by the government saber (95 sets of sabers), and it was cast the actual fighting into large quantities.

Although it was it with the Japanese sword that was taken in modern technology as for each the special sabers body at the point of view called the original "Japanese sword as the weapon of the fight", and was completed, and was mastered in the important utility;, as for the aesthetic element of the appearance, there is no it; (there is the thing which had both sides like a half training Showa sword of Seki) is not included in the category of the Japanese sword a lot of things today from the top of the manufacturing method either; is done a thing. However, it is these days and becomes popular to these sabers which were not looked at so far in the sword world, and the voices of the reevaluation such as the new discovery of a student and the collector or the negation of the partial popular view rise at the same time.