Original Japanese WWII Imperial Japanese Army Officer Wool Overcoat Category_Display Guns & Parts Sets Blade length is approximately 25

Blade length is approximately 25 1/4 inches and overall length 36 1/4 inches

so there is some play in the cross guard

as indicated by the markings on the top strap:

Regulars] discarded clothes and walked in underwear

Captain R Mitford telescope and prize papers

Original Japanese WWII Imperial Japanese Army Officer Wool Overcoat Category_Display Guns & Parts Sets Blade length is approximately 25Original Item: Only One Available. Before Pearl Harbor the Japanese had already begun imperial expansion in Manchuria (1931), Inner Mongolia (1936), Jehol (1933), China (1937), and in other territories and islands during World War 1. The Empire of Japan entered World War II on 22 September 1940 when it invaded French Indochina, and made its entrance into the war official five days later with the signing of the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy on