Japanese Arisaka rifle

My brother came into posession of a Japanese Arisaka rifle, possibly the short version (carbine?), and is having trouble finding out information or value. The weapon has a detachable box magazine and all of the markings are in Japanese. He is not sure of the model, or even what caliber. Any help or directions for information are appreciated.

mMichael

hello,,are you sure this is an arisaka,,i don't recall them having a detachable mag,,they do have a hinged floorplate that can be opened with a lever in front of the trigger guard,,the carbine models were the type 38 carbine and the type 44 which had a side folding bayonet ,,heres a site to help ya id the markings http://www.radix.net/~bbrown/japanese_markings.html ,,this site will help you with the charaters marked on the rifle and will show you how to determine which model you have ,,if the link doesn't work search "japanese rifle markings"and you will find it ,,values for these have rizen in the past 10 years and depending on which one you have 350 is a good starting figure.. depending if it's numbers matching (the serial numbers last 3 digits should be on any part that has a number) and if the mum on top of the receiver is present or ground or defaced ,,caliber for a carbine is 6.5x 51 i beleive or commonly called the 6.5 jap,,the other battle rifle used by the japanese most commonly found would be the 7.7 jap and they would be a type 99 arisaka ,,these were the most common variation of the arisaka used during ww2 ,,there are other models with special features but basically you find these 3 variants these days ,,
bigcurt

i have one of them, must have a look, also got a couple of rolling block belgium proof marked. .22 and .25 plus westley richards S/S numbered early hammerless. Got old and my eldest has inherited my good ( old ) stuff. what the going price of these ???? (what ive got left)