Sukehide of the Yoshioka is known through a single dated , designated at the 60th session in 2014, whose tang reads Bishū Yoshioka-jū Sukehide below a large character , with a date in the seventh month of Shōhei 18 (1363) on the reverse. The published sources place the branch in the history of the : 「吉岡一文字派は、福岡一文字派に次いで鎌倉時代末期から南北朝期にかけて繁栄した」 (the Yoshioka flourished after the Fukuoka , from the end of the period into the period), its smiths sharing the character in their names. Large patterned recalling Fukuoka appear only rarely in the branch; as a rule 「乱れの中に互の目が目立ち、やや小出来となるものが通例である」 ( stand out within the , and the work is usually on a somewhat smaller scale).
The is with an , broad and thin, with a shallow and , and cut through on both sides. The is with adhering well and entering frequently; the rises in a manner on the and as a broad, rod-like band on the . The is a led by small , with and , , and fine and , and the turns in with a very shallow and returns in . The sources conclude that in these points 「地刃に前記の吉岡一文字の特色が明示されている」 (the features of Yoshioka described above are clearly shown in both and ).
They value the blade on two counts, 「数少ない同派の脇指の作例として、また正平十八年の年紀を有する有年紀作として資料的に貴重な作である」 (as one of the few of the school, and as a work dated Shōhei 18, it is valuable documentary material). This dated piece is the whole of his present record, and it fixes Sukehide of Yoshioka in the period.