Original 18th Century Edo Period Japanese Handmade Heavy Blade Ō-Wakizashi Short Sword with Textured Scabbard & Sageo Cord German SS 9A1845-101

9A1845-101

- 3rd Class with 4th Class (gold medal with silver medal like this example)

von Pfuel was the Chairman of the Central Committee of the German National Red Cross during World War I

As these field tunics have no collar button

The metal plate on the scabbard is stamped EARL WITT with E WITT stamped into the leather on the belt loop

Original 18th Century Edo Period Japanese Handmade Heavy Blade Ō-Wakizashi Short Sword with Textured Scabbard & Sageo Cord German SS 9A1845-101Original Item: Only One Available. Wakizashi ( "side inserted companion sword") is a general term for a sword with an edge between one and two shaku long (30 cm and 60 cm), predominantly made after 1600. Generally it is the short blade that accompanies a katana in the traditional samurai daisho pairing of swords, but may be worn by classes other than the samurai as a single blade, also worn edge up as the katana. This great example dates from the Edo