[ Feature ]
Form : Shinogi-zukuri. Iori-mune. Mihaba is wide. Kasane is ordinal. Clean sori attached. O-kissaki form.
Nakago : Ubu. Yasurimes are suji-kais and kesho. Saki is kuri-jiri. One hole.
Jigane : Ko-itame-hada well grained. Jinie attached.
Hamon : Gunome-midare with gunomes which top are round and cho-ji taste "ha"s mixed. Ashis appeared. Part by part, nie attached. Sunagashis appeared.
Boushi : It runs in sugu. Saki is ko-maru form. It turns relatively long.

[ Highlight ] Akimoto Akitomo "秋元昭友" is a swordsmith born in Kuroiso-cho, Tochigi prefecture in 1910. His real name is Akimoto Shinichi and his grandfather was Zenbei Aizu Kanesada "善兵衛会津兼定". In 1928, he joined the Japanese Sword Forging Training School in Akasaka Hikawa-cho. He studied under Kurihara Hikosaburo Akihide "栗原彦三郎昭秀" and Kasama Ikkan-sai Shigetsugu "笠間一貫斎繁継".　It is said that the then Prime Minister Minoru Saito, together with his teacher Akihide Kurihara, named him the swordmith Akitomo "昭友". He later became a teacher at the same school and at the Nihonto Academy. His juniors at the same school were followed by living national treasures Miyairi Yukihira "宮入行平" and Amada Akitsugu "天田昭次".　He was appointed as a swordsmith in the army. After the war, he resumed sword making in 1954. He has been awarded the Honorary Prize three times, the Prime Minister's Prize twice and the Minister of Education's Prize once at the New Japanese Sword Exhibition. He was awarded the Excellence Prize and the Effort Prize at the New Japanese Sword Exhibition. This sword has a powerful body with an o-kissaki tip in the style of Minamoto Kiyomaro "源清麿" and Koyama Munetsugu "固山宗次" of the Shinshinto period.

[ Conditions ] Excellent.