The black-lacquer saya finished to resemble baleen and sprinkled with finely crushed aogai, the koiguchi shakudo and the kojiri shibuichi and carved with a cross-hatch design, the kaeri-zuno silver and the kurikata lacquered fundame, the tsuka wrapped in purple silk and mounted with shakudo ishime-ji fuchi-gashira decorated with a goose in flight and a stylized crescent moon behind clouds in iro-e takazogan, the menuki of nesting geese in shakudo, shibuichi and gold, the oval shibuichi migaki-ji plate tsuba decorated with cranes in reeds by a stream rendered in iro-e takazogan and katakiribori, signed Chihakken Hiroyuki and with a kao
With Tokubestu Hozon Tosogu (Sword Fitting Especially Worthy of Preservation) certificate no. 2000582 issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword), dated November 6, 2012.