27.3" nagasa (blade length). 38.8" overall with Tsuka (Hilt) and Saya (Scabbard). Shinogi Zukuri katana blade with two-hole nakago signed on one side by Izumi no Kami Kaneshige, a famed jo saku Shinto swordsmith of Musashi province, circa 1644. He was Jo Saku rated in Fujishiro, 60 KC in the Nihonto Meikan. The blade features a long O-Kissaki, Ihori Mune, and Omaru Boshi with crisp Masame Hada and Sugu Hamon. The Nakago is in the Futsu form with Kuri-Jiri tip. Habaki is silver plated and features a deep tarnish through its patterns. Blade is fitted with a Moko Gatta tsuba of black finished Shakudo with a Nanako ground and further decorated with red Shakudo, blackened Shakudo, and Sentoku knot designs. Fuchi and Kashira are Sentoku with a fine Nanako ground below a blackened Shakudo Asanoha pattern. The tsuka features black silk grip tape over traditional white same, and further mounts a pair of matching blackened Shakudo Menuki with gold details depicting the life of a cherry blossom from bud to shed petals. Sword comes with a wood lacquered saya matching the decorative forms of the fittings. The same Asanoha pattern is lacquered onto the throat and drag, the latter component having at some point been detached and re-mounted with a screw. An important and rare sword by a famed and respected maker.