The basic style features a semegane fitting mounted between the ninoashi (ashikanamono around the scabbard center) and ishitsuki fitting (end cap), which is a style already seen in warabite and other swords in the late kofun period and inherited to the Edo period in handachi (koshirae employing handachi [transitive style between curved swords to straight swords]-style fittings) and the early Showa period in tachi-style military swords.
二ノ足（足金物の内中央寄りの方）と鞘尻の石突金物との間には責金が一つ入るのが基本的な形式で、これは古墳時代晩期の蕨手刀等に既に見られる形式であり、下っては江戸時代の半太刀（はんだち太刀風の金具を用いた打刀拵）や昭和初期の太刀風の軍刀にまで踏襲された。