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			This is a snapshot of the the entire arm. I doubt that this arm is in any serious way linkable to Japan. I suspect that one or another of its previous owners felt it "looked" odd and Asian and so, "Japanese." It is unmarked save for embellishment to the brass inlay along the lower stock edge  and lock counter-plate. It certainly looks not at all martial.And it does not look like a "primitive" or ethnographic weapon.
		 
		
		
		
			
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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