Simonsimon
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Do you have a photo of the whole knife? Or at least the handle? The box says nothing but the standard "cooking knife".
The two kanji letters look like 月剣 meaning "moon sword". Maybe it's a worn out 羽剣 "wing sword", neither of which make much sense or are identifiable. What surprises me is the "Japan" stamped into what looks like a wa-bouchou, something that I've never seen before. Cutlery made for export only have that stamp, and I find it hard to believe that there was any market for exporting a single bevel wa-bouchou in the past. Anything on the other side of the blade?
for what its worth, i've seen a number of wa-bocho with "japan" in romanji on the blade... for whatever reason, romanji were interesting to japanese people back in postwar japan for a while. They also did it for a lot of export only stuff, but it wasnt only that stuff.
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