Military Swords of Imperial Japan

Scabbard, Spring clip and Tassel for new Guntōes

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Changes and the kind of Saya of a new Guntō

Introductory notes:  Scabbard = Saya

Army Type 94 Guntō:   The quality of the material is steel (an inner scabbard Saya is a magnolia), and the coating
         color was specified as bluish blackish brown. There is much gloss coating.

Army Type 98 Guntō:   The quality of the material is steel (an inner scabbard Saya is a magnolia), and the coating
         color was specified as bluish blackish brown. It is the same as Type 94 Gunto.
         However, the quality of the material changed with the iron → aluminum → leather cover wooden
         scabbard by change of the conditions of a country. The quality of the Saya deteriorated gradually.
             The early type was on extension of the Type 94 Gunto Saya paint. There is also gloss coating of "a
                 vermilion system and a green system" besides a standard coating color.
         Usually, although there is much semigloss coating of "khaki and a brown system", since it is an
         officer's personal belongings, the coating color of a Saya is various.

Army Type 3 Guntō: Compared with the Type 94 and 98, it became the Koshirae of a function and practicality serious
         consideration.
         The Kuchi-gane of protection-against-dust 2 division was adopted. Semegane which was an ornament was
         omitted in the iron Saya. The Saya of a Type 3 improved markedly compared quality and the strength of
         the informality Koshirae of a Type 98, .The Type 3 became the last formal Gunto in an imperial army.
         Metallic ornaments change delicately with production companies. There are a normalized form and a last
          stage type.                        
        
Navy Type Tachi:  An iron Saya is not used from consideration of marine damage from salt water. It is a standard to
         wind the Same skin around a wooden Saya. There are also lacquered and paint coating.
                 A navy Guntō has few manufactures and there is no fall of the Koshirae grace like an army.


Army Type 94 Guntō's Saya


    Bluish blackish brown (standard color)

Blackish brown

Vermilion

Brown rayskin binding wooden Saya


Army Type 98 Guntō's Saya


    Bluish blackish brown (standard color)

 Reddish brown


       Red of the vermilion taste
 

 Bluish green
 

     Black rayskin binding wooden Saya


   Last stage type leather-binding wooden Saya

 
Navy Type Tachi's Saya



     Black rayskin binding wooden Saya

        Black lacquered wooden Saya


     Brown rayskin binding wooden Saya
 
 
Wooden Saya of red sandalwood color coating



Army Type 3 Guntō's Saya



   Iron scabbard: black semigloss uneven coating.

 Wooden scabbard: Reddish brown semigloss uneven coating.


   



Army Type 94


 The second Haikan of the Types 94 is an attachment-and-detachment  Type. It equipped, when hanging on the formal sword  belt of courtesy, and it usually removed, and was hanging by one Haikan on theinformal sword belt.
 Since the Type 98 revised the actual condition, both do not have a fundamental difference as a Gunto Koshirae.
 Desorption type (There are three systems by a production ompany)


                                 Fixed type      Desorption Type

When a desorption Type Haikan is removed,it is the same as Types 98.





Blade-Clip

Introductory notes:  metaled nail = Chūsō
 

 In order for a blade to prevent deviating from a Saya carelessly, there are three sorts of methods of stopping a blade.

  (1) The stop by the Habaki (Habaki-dome type): This is a method from ancient times. This method uses the
       frictional resistance of the Habaki and a wooden scabbard (Saya).
       A Tachi and a Uchigatana are this method all.
  (2) The stop by the metaled nail (Chūsō-type)
  (3) The stop by the button of a leather bunt

 (2) and (3) are the peculiar stopping method for the Guntō.
 The Type 94 and the Type 98 first stage type is a stop by the metaled nail.
 The Type 98 middle type are intermingled stop by the metaled nail or the stop by a Habaki.
 An informal leather cover wooden scabbard is the stop by the button of a leather bunt or the stop by a Habaki.
 A Type 3 is the stop by the metaled nail.
 A navy Type Tachi has many traditional stop by a Habaki, and there is few stop by the metaled nail.
 This is considered because  a naval Guntō view and the environment of use differ from an army considerably.


By the metaled nail (Chūsō-type)

Type 94, 98 and Tachi


 Kuchigane  Chūsō   Chūsō-button

A nail is hooked on the hole of the iron
Saya hidden by the Kuchi-gane.


   A nail is hooked on a Kuchi-gane


 The position of the Chūsō has two sorts a center and lower parts. The Chūsō differ altogether in a work company. 
 The length of a  Chūsō is adjusted to the thickness of the sum total of a guard (Tsuba) and a washers for every sword. 
 Therefore, appropriation of easy parts cannot be performed.


Type 3


駐爪ボタン
Chūsō-button
A Type 3 has the button of which a Chūsō
is canceled in two places



Type 98 informality mounting (Wooden leather cover Saya)


      The stop by the button of a leather strap

   
            The leather strap around the Fuchi
              Belt stop
      
        Scabbard leather strap


The leather strap united with the Seppa








Tassel & Class


A tassel displays an officer's class. It uses for the reinforcement (it twists around a right wrist) when extracting a sword and grasping a Tsuka.
 The role of a tassel is as variegated as an ornament and practical use.
 It is an element indispensable to a Gunto Koshirae.

 An army tassel; Plain weave (Kōrai textile): A surface color is "brown".
                     In the back, a color changes with an officer's classes.

      General: Red (it is embroidery zigzag about gold thread to a table and the reverse side) and a fringe is
            gold thread.
           Field officer: Red. The thread of a fringe is brown and red.
           Company officer:  Blue. The thread of a fringe is as blue as brown.

 Navy tassel: Plain weave (Kōrai textile): A table and the reverse side are "brown".
          There is no discrimination by an officer's class.


A tassel displays an officer's class


          General          Field officer      Company officer            Naval officer Common










 ← A tassel has two sorts, ordinary
  quality and the good quality which
  bordered the both ends of a tassel
   with opposite thread.

    There is two kinds of how to tie
        regardless of quality. →




    
How to tie a tassel and quality
Left: Good quality
Right: Ordinary quality








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