The Takada school of Bungo begins in the Nanbokuchō period with Tomoyuki, a pupil of Sa Monji of Chikuzen. Kotō blades sign with the Taira surname and, from the shintō period onwards, with Fujiwara. It is a school with a long reputation for working swords: during the Sengoku it forged for Ōtomo Sōrin and rivalled Seki and Osafune in output. Muneyuki received a character of his name from the daimyō Ōtomo Yoshimune, is regarded as the founder of Takada shintō and is classed wazamono. This blade is attributed to the second generation: a strong shape with broad saki-haba and an extended point, a slightly dark ko-itame hada with flowing grain and faint utsuri, a tight, luminous suguha with occasional ko-notare, frequent ashi and yō of archaic feel, and a straight bōshi with a broad, round turnback. It measures 69.9 cm nagasa with 1.22 cm sori, motohaba 30.8 mm and motokasane 7.2 mm; it weighs 704 g bare and 1,037 g mounted. The koshirae is uchigatana in kuro-rō-nuri with a kawari ami-maki saya: a net was stretched over the scabbard, lacquered over and polished back to leave a honeycomb pattern. The fittings form an isshin set in shibuichi migaki-ji. Shirasaya and tsunagi are included.