Pls. help with identification of a sword & if possible some history about it‏

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The metal fittings appear to bear the hollyhock crest of the Tokugawa clan. Are there any bamboo or metal pins holding the tsuka (handle) on that you can pop off?

Edited: Some better pictures of the blade and perhaps pictures of the nakago (the tang of the bare blade) would be extremely helpful.
 
Some better pictures would definitely be in order, but if that is bone as it appears to be, there were cheap bone handled tanto, and I suppose wakizashi and katana too that were produced by the Japanese as tourist trinkets a hundred years ago or more and probably still are today.
 
Triton said:
Some better pictures would definitely be in order, but if that is bone as it appears to be, there were cheap bone handled tanto, and I suppose wakizashi and katana too that were produced by the Japanese as tourist trinkets a hundred years ago or more and probably still are today.
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Unless there are better pics of the blade/tang, that's my guess too.
 
Yes, this is a tourist bone carved Japanese tanto/wakizashi. Most likely made
during the later 19th C up to just post WW II for GI's to take home.
Rich S
 
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