Army textbook: Diagram of a Type 30 bayonet and a Type 99 rifle (1939 -).
Early manufacture bayonet.
The section of a hilt, a Tsuka-gashira (a suit sword metal partses), and the tip shape of a scabbard
differ from a lower thing. Although an early product is seemed,it is the blade dyed black.
The middle - last stage manufacture bayonet.
Although the hilt Tsuka and the Tsuka-gashira are carrying out the shape of a square shape commonly called
middle - last stage type, it is the blade polished white.
The bayonet and bayonet holder which are considered to be manufacture of the last stage from the middle.
(A black dyeing blade and straight guard).
That the cutting part is white is the marks where someone tried to polish an edge and which black dyeing peeled off.
(A top and Tsuka-gashira photograph: "25 th" web site offer)
The name of a bayonet
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Tsuka-gashira
It inserts in the metal parts
of the bayonet stop of a rifle
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The arsenal inspection mark and
a manufacture number stamp.
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