Original 17th Century Edo Period Japanese Handmade Wakizashi Short Sword by TOSHINORI with Scabbard Category_Fusee Spring & Cover 1945 and reads:

1945 and reads:

Lock is faintly marked with an eagle and U

They then chased the Germans west across the fields south of Apeldoorn until the surrender of the Germans on 8 May 1945

This is a sword that was setup to go into action

after resuming hostilities with France in the Napoleonic Wars in 1803

Original 17th Century Edo Period Japanese Handmade Wakizashi Short Sword by TOSHINORI with Scabbard Category_Fusee Spring & Cover 1945 and reads:Original Item: Only One Available. Wakizashi ( "side inserted companion sword") is a general term for a sword 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 example dates from the early Edo period (, Edo