30.5" blade length. 36.75" overall with scabbard and hilt. Brass guard with smooth brass backstrap incorporating a knurled latch button, smooth wood grip, and a steel scabbard with a single ring. Item features a tang screw on pommel cap with flush fitting bolt. Blade is serial numbered 14013 on the left blade near the guard. Scabbard throat is lined in brass, and the hilt mounts a rivet secured leather finger ring. Drag is weakly numbered 575. Machine made blade features a 29.5" fuller with the blade without a hamon line. Blade left the factory unsharpened but shows ssigns of sharpening along its length.

The Type 25 pattern cavalry sword was authorized for NCOs and soldiers on March 19, 1892. Combining Japanese blade geometry with European pattern furnishings, the Type 25 typified the swords designed for Imperial Japan's forces in the late 19th Century. It is suspected that the Tokyo Artillery Arsenal manufactured fewer than 17,000 Type 25 swords. In 1934, propelled by rising nationalist sensibilities, Japanese swords began to adopt more traditional forms based upon the iconic Tachi style, and displaced the European influenced blades.