Kageyori's one dated work on record is a at the Tōshōgū in Wakayama, signed Sakon-Shōgen Kageyori and dated the first month of Shōō 2 (1289), now an Important Cultural Property. He is a smith of the group, and his name is one of the problems of old . Examining the surviving signatures, the published sources hold that "it appears there were roughly three smiths using the name Kageyori in Province". The oldest is the hand of "a boldly cut, large two-character signature". The latest prefixes no and belongs to the close of the period, and works of the Kōan and Einin years in a somewhat older manner lie between. A further strand carries the title Sakon-Shōgen with an Einin date, and of it the published sources write that its lineage "is not clearly established". Each blade is therefore placed by its own and before it is assigned to a line.
His fully described record is two signed , both slender with a small . The shortened Tokyo keeps a high in spite of the , while the Hyōgo has a somewhat shallow . The temper of both is a -toned line worked from within. On the shortened blade it is a mixed with small , with entering. adhere, the tends toward tightness, and the sweeps out in a kake-dashi. On the blade it is a -toned line of mixed with , small entering. There the adhere well, and appear, and the runs straight into a . Both carry a on each side.
The divides along the same two blades. On the Tokyo a is closely forged and a stands, and the published sources read the whole, the packed with its and the tight of small and small , as "one stylistic mode seen in late- ". On the Hyōgo the inclines to stand, with adhering. From its slender form and the well developed of and , the published sources judge it "a -period work in the lineage". Its tang is signed on the with a large two-character , the form that the same explanation names as the oldest of the name.
The three Important Cultural Property are known in the published record by their plates, which give the forging and the in a word. The Sakon-Shōgen of Shōō 2 is a with mixed with . The signed Kageyori at Inaba Shrine in Gifu is an with a . The signed Kageyori at the Tokyo National Museum, 80.0 cm long, is a with a mixed with . Taken with the two blades, the five run from a plain through a -toned small to a mixed with , always on a or , and only the Tōshōgū blade carries a date.
Kageyori belongs to the group, the collective name for the smiths of the late into the period. No fixed descent is transmitted for him, and his attributions rest on era and on the old- character of his and . What marks his described hand is restraint: the appears as and small clusters inside a -toned line, and on the Tokyo blade the stands in a tight .
Five designated works stand on record, all of them signed : three Important Cultural Properties and two . The Important Cultural Properties rest at the Tokyo National Museum, the Tōshōgū in Wakayama and Inaba Shrine in Gifu, patrimony held by a national museum and two shrines rather than blades that pass between collectors. One of his blades carries a recorded provenance from the Arima family. Only the two stand in the tier that private collections may hold, so a signed Kageyori in private hands is among the rarer things a collector of early could encounter, and one comes to market, when it does, only with patience.