Type 94 Manual

I have acquired a reproduction Type 94 instruction manual. Here is the cover. The column in large type in the middle says: “Instruction Manual for the Care and Handling of the Type 94 Handgun”. The column in the far right says: “Published in April, Showa 15”, which means April, 1940. The column in small type just to the left of that says: “Published by the Nagoya Army Arsenal”. The circular mark in the lower left is a name stamp with the name “Yamazaki” in it. The name Yamazaki also appears in handwriting on the back cover, which is otherwise blank.

I will be adding a translation of this manual as soon as I can get it done. It will take a while as the copy quality is very poor, so the characters are hard to read (some are completely illegible). It also uses a ton of technical terms and is written in pre-war Japanese, which uses many characters that were dropped or simplified after the war.

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