Sugata (configuration): shinogi-zukuri (longitudinal ridgeline) with shallow torii-zori (even curve); medium kissaki (tip of blade); kitae (forging pattern): nashiji hada with areas of mokume (‘pear skin’ and wood burl); hamon (tempering pattern): broad suguha with some notare (straight, with some undulations); one broad hi (groove) on both sides of the blade which extend into the nakago; copper habaki (collar); nakago (tang): ubu (unshortened); mumei (unsigned); one mekugi-ana (peg hole). Mounted in shirasaya (magnolia wood scabbard). Koshirae (mounting): saya (scabbard): steel with protective leather cover and brass suspension ring; tsuka (handle) wooden wrapped in brown silk ito (braiding) over fine white samegawa (ray skin); standard brass military fittings with finely detailed sakura (cherry blossom) on the tsuba (hand guard) and the menuki (hilt grips), the whole ensemble held together with a tsunagi (wooden blade used when original blade is held in a shirasaya)