Katana by Nobukuni Yoshikane, a smith of the Chikuzen Nobukuni school, the Fukuoka branch descended from the Yamashiro Nobukuni; the original seller places it in the early Edo period, between the Kanbun and Jōkyō eras. Shinogi-zukuri blade with iori-mune, nagasa 70.0 cm, sori 1.7 cm, motohaba 3.10 cm and kasane 0.75 cm, weighing 735 g unmounted: a well-fleshed blade with a slightly extended chū-kissaki. According to the original seller, the jigane is a well-forged ko-itame with ji-nie and chikei, and the hamon a chū-suguha with a single gunome on the omote and a notare on the ura, with a bright nioiguchi and ko-nie; the photographs show that suguha with its gunome around the middle of the blade. The bōshi, according to the listing, runs straight and turns back rounded. The tang, with two mekugi-ana and its original end as seen in the photographs, is signed 筑前住源信國吉包 (Chikuzen-jū Minamoto Nobukuni Yoshikane). It is kept in shirasaya, with a gold-foiled copper habaki. It comes with NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon Tōken papers dated 9 November 2020 and a copy of an old 特別貴重刀剣 (Tokubetsu Kichō Tōken) certificate from 1966. It has no mounting.