Simona Oprea
Head of Oriental Art, Traditional Art & Carpets Evaluation Office; Chinese Language Certificate HSK 4
63. Katana-type sword, ”Koa Isshin Mantetsu” inscription (a popular nationalist slogan during the Second World War), Japan, 1943
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63. Katana-type sword, ”Koa Isshin Mantetsu” inscription (a popular nationalist slogan during the Second World War), Japan, 1943
Starting price:
EUR 1.000
Sold
EUR 1.800
steel, leather, l=103 cm
The translation of the "Koa Isshin" inscription may be: ”Asia-One Heart”; the phrase was a patriotic slogan in Second World War Japan. It may also be a reference to the ”Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”, the Japanese version of the Monroe doctrine, which started in 1932, when Japan occupied Manchuria.
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Head of Oriental Art, Traditional Art & Carpets Evaluation Office; Chinese Language Certificate HSK 4
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