Old Chinese Combat Training Booklet

[Cant Read Chinese]

Hello

 

I found this old chinese (at least I think it's chinese) combat training booklet.

 

There are a few drawings of men fighting with swords or bayonets throughout the booklet.

 

I have a picture of the front cover, back cover and first page.

 

I would very much like to know what the back cover says, but finding out how old it is is the main goal.

 

The first picture is the front cover, the second picture is the back cover and the third picture is the first page.

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Thank you in advance if you can translate any of this!

[Cant Read Chinese]

Unfortunately I didn't see a way to edit my original post, and it seems my pictures aren't showing because I did something wrong.

 

Just in case, here it is in BBCode instead of HTML.

 

 

Just in case THAT didn't work, here are the links to the images.

 

https://ibb.co/kyQi1k
https://ibb.co/mwHwMk
https://ibb.co/gORZ7Q

 

 

The reason I didn't upload the images directly to the forums is because they are about 12MB, and the max size allowed by the forums is about 2MB.

 

Sorry!

 

 

 

[Cant Read Chinese]

 

Sorry for the triple post... 

[TheBigZaboon]

The document is a training manual probably for the Japanese military sword (軍刀) usually carried by officers, and maybe some non-commisioned officers. It seems to have been originally printed and published in the 9th year of the Showa 昭和 Emperor's reign (1934), and the copy you have is the 6th edition, published in 昭和 13 (1938). It is Japanese, not Chinese.

Some of the images don't show up too well on my phone, so I'm open to being corrected. 

Hope this helps.

TBZ

[Cant Read Chinese]

Exactly what I wanted to know, thank you very much.

[happy_hyaena]

That's a pretty crazy thing to have. When I think of Japanese WW2 officers carrying swords and guns with bayonets, I'm just imagining all the crimes against humanity they committed. Like how they would throw Philipino babies into the air and stab them with their bayonets, or the story I saw in the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall of how two officers had a competition to see who could killed the most.

 

https://www.google.se/search?safe=off&client=ubuntu&hs=blF&biw=1616&bih=772&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=南京+大屠杀+挑战+106&oq=南京+大屠杀+挑战+106&gs_l=psy-ab.3...8076.11443.0.11798.13.13.0.0.0.0.84.795.13.13.0....0...1.1j4.64.psy-ab..0.0.0.2nv50u1F9MA#imgrc=TGe96PmeigqDGM:

 

 

Just out of curiousity, where did you find that booklet?

[Lu]

1 hour ago, happy_hyaena said:

When I think of Japanese WW2 officers carrying swords and guns with bayonets, I'm just imagining all the crimes against humanity they committed.

A friend of mine who lives in China owns a Japanese coat of armour and to be honest, every time I saw it I just thought: what an amazingly cool coat of armour. Not sure if that makes me naive or optimistic or what.

 

This friend told me that many Japanese officers brought their antique family weaponry with them when they went to invade China in the Second World War, and had to leave it behind when the war ended. Hence you can buy them in China relatively cheaply, since nobody really knows what to do with these things. They're clearly interesting, but not Chinese antiques, and there is a lot of bad history attached.

[happy_hyaena]

14 hours ago, Lu said:

A friend of mine who lives in China owns a Japanese coat of armour and to be honest, every time I saw it I just thought: what an amazingly cool coat of armour. Not sure if that makes me naive or optimistic or what.

 

There are a lot of Japanese things that I do not associate with these things, like Toyota cars, Anime and Sushi, but when it comes to a booklet whose sole purpose was teaching Japanese soldiers how to best use to their weapons to end the lives of their enemies? BTW I'm not advocating that OP destroy it or anything. I just think it's a very interesting piece of history, like Nazi memorabilia.