A Shimada katana with mounts
Nanbokucho/Muromachi period (14th/15th century)
Sugata (configuration): honzukuri, yorimune, extend kissaki, slight koshizori, thick kasane
Kitae (forging pattern): itame in jinie with some chikei
Hamon (tempering pattern): omidare with sunagashi and kinsuji, ashi and choji
Boshi (tip):yakizume
Nakago (tang): osuriage with three holes and indistinct file marks
Habaki (collar): one-piece, gold foil
Nagasa (length from tip to beginning of tang): 25 1/4 (64.1cm) long
Motohaba (width at start of tempered edge): 1 5/16in (3.3cm) wide
Sakihaba (width before tip): 1in (2.5cm) wide
In shirasaya (wood storage scabbard)

19th-century koshirae comprising a black lacquer saya finished in ishime and stylized cloud design and decorated with archaistic Chinese dragon and phoenix in iroiro, the top designed with ribs in black lacquer and fitted with a shibuichi kojiri carved with waves and highlighted with gold and silver dots of foam, the tsuka wrapped in leather and mounted with shakudo ishimeji fuchi-gashira with plum blossoms and pine needles in iroetakazogan and shakudo and gold menuki carved as books, the iron mokko tsuba carved on the surface with swirling clouds and dragons highlighted in gold and silver nunomezogan, the hitsuana plugged with shakudo and decorated with tigers in bamboo and plum blossoms in gold lacquer

With Hozon Token (Sword worthy of preserving) certificate no. 358079 issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai (The Society for the Preservation of the Japan Art Sword), dated 2000.12.21.