A black wool Imperial Japanese Navy seaman’s cap with a post-1941 cap tally. The cap’s 24cm diameter crown has its original stiffening wire intact under the forward seam. The headband has a black silk cap tally attached to it, along the front of which is machine woven seven kanji characters, in gold. An anchor, machine woven in gold, is to each of these "tails." The interior of the cap is fully lined in black, brushed cotton, and features, to the center of its crown, a white oilcloth tag with five vertical lines of kanji characters to it. Sewn under the sweatband, over each ear, is a single-piece, non-adjustable, black elasticized chin strap.