Measuring 35 1/2 inches long overall length, with a 25 inch blade, showing a wavy hamon and fine grain. The habaki is silver finished, engraved on both sides with a "sunwheel" pattern set in a nine-pointed star. The hilt follows the "shin gunto" regulation pattern, with a gold plated tsuba, gold accents on the furniture, a blue and brown tassel, and a silver badge of an 11 petaled chrysanthemum on the back of the kashira. The saya is equipped with shin gunto pattern furniture and finished with white lacquer dots on a black lacquer field. The assembly number "18" can be found on the hilt fittings, tsuba and spacers. The tang has one mekugi-ana, a carved 13-symbol signature on the right side and 6 on the right, with a second, shallower set of hand cut markings concealed underneath the habaki. No showa/non-traditional/arsenal stamps are present on the tang and no painted markings, suggesting a traditionally made sword. While the exact history of this sword is unknown, a number of traditional blades were still being made during World War II as resources permitted, as well as older sword blades being fitted with the new pattern furniture.