Original Japanese WWII Senninbari 1000 Stitch Belt with Rising Sun & Kanji - 28" x 6" U.S. Military Maps soft and supple with no

soft and supple with no signs of any sort of leather conditioner or “preservative” having ever been applied

511 were made

but overall they are in great shape

including the cylinder axis pin and loading lever

They came under heavy fire from the Germans while coming ashore

Original Japanese WWII Senninbari 1000 Stitch Belt with Rising Sun & Kanji - 28" x 6" U.S. Military Maps soft and supple with noOriginal Item: One of a kind. A Senninbari ( thousand person stitches) or One thousand stitch is a strip of cloth that measures approximately 15 cm (6 in) high and up to 90120 cm (34 ft) or more in length. Each end of the belt (sash) may or may not have strings, snaps or buttons that allow it to be fastened about the waist. Examples that lack these were often tucked into the waist. Other variations were never worn but may have been folded and placed