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Sugata?[configuration]: Hon-zukuri with bo-hi, shallow tori-zori, chu-kissaki and iori-mune
Kitae?[forging pattern]: Muji hada
Hamon?[tempering pattern]: Midare but based on suguha in ko-nie
Boshi?[tip]: Ko-maru with kaeri
Nakogo?[tang]: Ubu with 2 mekugi-ana, ha-agari kuri-jiri, mumei
Nagasa?[length from?kissaki?to?machi]: 60.8 cm,?24 in.Saki-haba?[width at the?yokote]: 2 cm,?11/14? in.Moto-haba?[width at the?machi]: 3.1 cm,?1 2/9? in.
In?koshirae?with silver mounts, which include kabuto-gane, ko-jiri, koi-guchi?and kurikata?all in silver depicting turbulent seas, the menuki are of dragons in gold, both tsuka and saya are in an angled ribbed lacquer in iroe hiramaki-e imitating strips of same, the shakudo tsuba of Iri-mokko-gata form with a dragon carving in kata-kiri, signed?Kaei 4 [1851] Doshi Moto Saku, Goto Homyo Ichijo (Kao)
Accompanied by a certificate of registration as?Tokubetsu Hozon Token?[Sword Worthy of Preserving] for the tsuba, issued by the Nihon Bijitsu Token Hozon Kyokai [Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Art Sword].