Chikatsugu of is represented by two signed , one designated at the forty-ninth session and one in the Imperial Collection. The published sources identify the blade as 「鎌倉時代末期の備前国新田庄に在住した親次の太刀である」 (a by Chikatsugu, who lived at Nitta-sho in in the late period). His signed works are extremely few, but smiths thought to be of his family, Chikayori, Ujiyori and Noritsugu among them, worked in the same place, and the sources fix the group's working years through Chikayori: 「親依には文保・元応・嘉暦・元徳などの年紀が見られ、一派の制作年代はほぼ明らかである」 (Chikayori has dated works of Bunpo, Gen'o, Karyaku and Gentoku, so the period of the group is largely clear). Of the group's manner they write 「細身の太刀姿に焼の低い直刃を焼き、小足の入るものが多い」 (slender forms with a low-tempered , often with small ).
The follows that pattern closely. It is yet keeps a high -zori with added curvature toward the point, a somewhat slender width tapering markedly, and a . The is mixed with , standing overall, with fine in form and fine ; rises toward the and a straight toward the edge. The is low, in a tone with a slight feeling, mixed with and , rising somewhat at the , with and , -dominant with , and a little and ; the is a shallow tending to . A with is carved on the and on the , and the two-character signature sits below the third peg hole toward the . The sources close by calling it 「現存稀な親次の在銘作として資料的にも頗る貴重である」 (a rarely surviving signed work by Chikatsugu, of great value as documentary material).
The Imperial Collection is longer and retains an tang with a tip and a single peg hole, the two characters cut in fine chisel strokes above the hole on the . It has a high -zori with and a small , mixed with tending to stand, and whitish . The temper drops away at the base in a large -otoshi, and above it runs mixed with , with and and a generally clouded . The commentary there reads the signature through the compendia's no Saheiji Fujiwara Chikatsugu, relates it to examples dated in the Bunpo era, and cautions that the -otoshi common in and work of this period should not be dismissed as evidence of retempering.
Both thus belong to the late of the early fourteenth century, the blade in the quiet low of the Nitta-sho group, the Imperial blade in a livelier and above a -otoshi. The same name was also used by smiths of and Bingo, who are separate makers.