How many kinds of Japanese knives are there?

Japanese knives can be roughly divided into command knives, sabers, sabers, bayonets and Tatsu Yamashiro.

Saber, also known as combat knife, is a knife for Japanese officers, and one of its functions is to represent the rank of officers in the army. The second is to direct operations; The third is as a knife, which can chop and stab.

Different services and ranks wear different sabers and command knives. Sabre is a special saber equipped by Japanese cavalry. Bayonet, also known as bayonet, is combined with rifle and submachine gun, which is the equipment of Japanese soldiers and is mainly used in hand-to-hand combat.

Tatsu Yamashiro is a special tool for Japanese samurai, which can be divided into Tatsu Yamashiro and etiquette Tatsu Yamashiro.

command knife

command knife has three functions: one is to represent the identity of an officer; The second is to direct operations; Thirdly, in hand-to-hand combat, it is hacked and stabbed, so it is also a self-defense weapon.

In addition, there is a command knife with the same body and scabbard as the above command knife, but the style of the armguard and the handle is different. In addition to the wooden board and shark skin tied by copper wire at the handle, there is also a carved dragon pattern on the outer copper skin of the handle.

Japanese army sabers include army sabers, navy sabers and air force sabers. Army saber is one of the most seized sabers in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, which consists of four parts: blade, handle, cutter head and scabbard. The blade body is forged from steel; The cutter head is made of brass, with a gold-plated appearance and a rectangle with cherry blossoms at the four corners of the rectangle;

The hilt is made by binding wooden boards with brown ribbons. Both ends of the hilt are decorated with copper, with cherry blossom patterns on it, and the forging date, place and craftsman's name are engraved. The combination of the handle and the blade body is completed by bamboo nailing. The scabbard is made of steel and painted, and its colors are brown, green and so on. The decorations at both ends of the scabbard are made of copper with cherry blossom patterns on it, and there is a copper hanging ring on the scabbard. It can be divided into general's saber, junior officer's saber and sergeant's saber.

during the second world war, Japan once made a kind of saber in Tokyo Equipment Branch Factory. It is different from the previous knives in that the cutter head is round and made of steel, and the handle is made of aluminum. The combination of the handle and the blade body is completed by a screw. This kind of saber is engraved with the word "East" and the number of the saber.

auxiliary saber

In addition, among the Japanese sabers seized in China, there is another kind of saber, which is a Japanese general's auxiliary saber, with a total length of 955mm, a blade length of 875mm and a blade length of 665mm. From the appearance, it is no different from other styles of generals' sabers, but the difference is obvious after the saber is decomposed.

Japanese sabers produced in the past were engraved with the time and place of forging sabers and the names of forging craftsmen, but this kind of saber is different. Although it was engraved with time, it was not engraved with the year of Showa ×××, but with the year of Showa Gengchen, with no names of places and craftsmen, but with the words "Xing Ya Yi Quan", "Made with iron" or "Made with iron". It can be seen from the inscription that the knife was made during the Showa period. "

" Made of full iron "reflects that the raw material for making this kind of saber is iron ore plundered in the northeast of China, which is forged after smelting into steel; While "developing Asia with one heart" is a slogan, which reflects the wolf ambition of Japanese imperialism to occupy China and Asia.

The scabbard of this kind of assistant saber comes in two colors, namely green and dark brown. The rest, such as handle, scabbard and decoration, are no different from other sabers.

General Saber

Navy Saber Among the Japanese navy sabers seized in China, there are General Saber and Assistant Saber. One of them is a saber used in vice admiral, Japan, which was seized in Hainan Island in China. The total length of the knife is 94mm, the blade length is 76mm and the blade length is 598 mm. The right side of the hilt is engraved with the words "auspicious day in August of the ninth year of Kuan Wen" and the left side is engraved with the words "Long Zeng Mi Xing Zheng".

According to the inscription, this Dao was forged in August of the ninth year of Kuanwen in Daiwa era, and the craftsman was Chang Zeng Mi Xing Zheng. The knife consists of a knife body, a knife head, a handle and a scabbard. The inscription is cursive, the cutter head is made of copper and oval, and the pattern is the style of Japanese military flag. The handle is made of brown ribbon binding wooden board and shark skin, and both ends of the handle are decorated with cherry blossom patterns plated with copper and platinum. The combination of the handle and the blade is completed by a bamboo nail.

The scabbard is made of wood and shark skin, and it is black. The two ends are decorated with copper-plated platinum cherry blossom patterns, and there are two hanging rings on it. Platinum plating on ornaments is a major feature of Japanese navy general sabers. This naval saber is of fine workmanship. The sergeant's saber and junior officer's saber are the same as this one, but the decoration is slightly worse.

air force saber the Japanese air force saber I saw has an inscription on the handle and a ""pattern, and the rest are the same as army sabers. The total length of the knife is 165mm, the blade length is 86mm and the blade length is 662 mm. The inscription on the handle reads: "Denju closes Fukuda Light", so it can be seen that this knife was forged in Denju, Japan. The forger thinks that the blade of Fukuda Light is made of steel, and the scabbard is painted with brown paint, and there are flying patterns in the head decoration of the scabbard.

Tatsu Yamashiro can be divided into Tatsu Yamashiro and Tatsu Yamashiro. The blade of samurai sword is the same as saber, but the handle, cutter head and scabbard are different from saber. The scabbard of Tatsu Yamashiro is made of wooden board, with painted exterior and different colors. There are different styles of cutter heads, such as square, rectangle, circle, ellipse, etc. It has no certain rules. The handle is made of wood, shark skin and copper ornaments bound by ribbons, and the combination with the blade body is completed by a bamboo nail.

Etiquette Tatsu Yamashiro consists of a blade, a cutter head, a handle and a scabbard. The blade is forged from high-quality steel, slightly curved, and has a blood groove with a length of 68mm. The handle is made of wood, shark skin, copper silver-plated decorations and tied with brown ribbons, and there are copper silver-plated decorative patterns on both sides of the handle. ?

The cutter head is made of brass, octagonal and patterned, with four symmetrical peach-shaped holes. The scabbard is made of wood, painted and decorated with copper and silver. The back of scabbard is bound by brown ribbon, and there are two hanging rings at the binding ribbon.

The total length of this ceremonial Tatsu Yamashiro is 15mm, the blade length is 945mm and the blade length is 715mm. On the right side, it is engraved with the inscription "Enjoy the auspicious day of February 9th" and "Twelve sections of real pill forging". On the left side, it is engraved with the words "Daiwa Shoufujiwara Tadashi". Sabre is a special knife for Japanese cavalry, and it is also a western-style shape. Its structure and decoration are simpler than the command knife. The blade body is forged from steel, the hand guard and the handle are made of steel and wood, and the wooden handle and the steel hand guard are combined by a bolt and nut.

Sabre

Similarities and differences between saber and Tatsu Yamashiro

Similarities between Japanese saber and Tatsu Yamashiro:

The blade bodies are forged very finely, and the quenching is quite exquisite, with wavy patterns.

The blade body is basically the same, and the handle is generally engraved with inscriptions, forging date, place and the name of the forging craftsman, and most of the inscriptions are in Chinese characters, with only a few Japanese characters.

the blade forging is the same, and the thickness and width are basically the same, but the length is different. The width of the blade part is 3 ~ 32 mm in the back, 26 ~ 27 mm in the middle and 21 ~ 26～27mm in the front.

the thickness of the blade is 8 ~ 1mm at the back, 6mm at the middle, 6 ~ 7mm at the thickest part at the front, and 4 ~ 4.5mm at the thinnest part between the middle and the front.

The difference between Saber and Tatsu Yamashiro:

The handle of Saber is shorter than that of Tatsu Yamashiro, and the cutter head is different. Saber is rectangular, with cherry blossom patterns at the four corners, which blocks the auxiliary saber as gold-plated;

The scabbard of saber is made of steel, and its colors are brown and green, and it has a hanging ring. These two colors are army sabers. The scabbard of Tatsu Yamashiro is made of wood, with painted surface and hand drawing. There is no hanging ring at the scabbard, but there are two hanging rings in etiquette Tatsu Yamashiro.