Sugata (configuration): honzukuri, iorimune, koshizori, chu-gisskai
Kitae (forging pattern): ko-itame mixed with mokume with much botan utsuri
Hamon (tempering pattern): gunome midare with sunagashi
Boshi (tip): midarekomi
Nakago (tang): ubu with one mekugi ana signed Kagemitsu (tachi mei)
Habaki (collar): one-piece, solid gold
In a shirasaya (wood storage scabbard) with inscription by Hon'ami Koson, dated 1938
With an additional shirasaya
The modern efu-dachi goshirae comprising a black-lacquer saya decorated in stripes of black ishime, the hardware all silver migaki-ji and pierced with inome, the tsuka of shagreen lacquered black and applied with silver paulownia leaves and bosses, doe-skin hangers stenciled with scrolling vines
With a Tokubetsu Kicho (Especially Precious) certificate no. 364341, issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword) dated November 4, 1978