The blade is forged, folded and clay tempered in the traditional manner using tamahagane steel, and is signed "KaneToshi". It features a flamboyant choji (clove bud) hamon which KaneToshi is well known to have produced. The hada is Itame (wood grain) with chikei and other hataraki throughout. The mounts are Handachi style, and are of those used by samurai, and were likely fitted late in the war when materials were too scarce to make the army sanctioned koshirae. This Nihonto was likely produced late in the war, probably 1944 - 1945.

 
KANETOSHI (兼俊) worked during the Shōwa (昭和, 1926-1989) period, in Gifu city. His real name was Murayama Kinokazu (村山喜之一), and he was born on August the 3rd, 1905. He worked as Rikugun-Jumei-Tōshō (Army Certified Sword Smith) and died on February 23rd in 1978. In 1941 he achieved the distinction of jōkō no retsu (Rank of Superior Craftsmen), Second Seat at the 6th Shinsaku Nihontō Denrankai (New Japanese Sword Competition).