Kantei

Bibliography

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026, with their link when it can be published, and the credit for each image. The website, social media and channels of the smith himself, and the dealers, were used to check facts, but they are neither cited nor linked; the photos taken from them carry a generic credit.

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Sources

NBTHK

  1. NBTHK, catalogue of the 2017 Shinsaku Meitōten
  2. NBTHK, 『刀剣美術』 (Tōken Bijutsu) no. 725, June 2017: words of the prize-winners
  3. NBTHK, 2018 results (『刀剣美術』, Tōken Bijutsu, no. 737)
  4. NBTHK, 2019 catalogue
  5. NBTHK, 2020 results
  6. NBTHK, 2021 catalogue
  7. NBTHK, 2022 catalogue
  8. NBTHK, 2023 results
  9. NBTHK, 2024 catalogue
  10. NBTHK, 2025 catalogue
  11. NBTHK, 2026 catalogue in English

Public bodies and press

  1. Bizen Osafune Japanese Sword Museum (Setouchi city council): the museum’s craftsmen
  2. Okayama prefecture: intangible cultural properties (Andō Hirokiyo, sword forging, 1997)
  3. Sankei Shimbun, 12 January 2023: the utsushi of the Sanchōmō
  4. Maison de la culture du Japon, “Céramiques et sabres de Bizen” (2024–2025)

Image credits

  1. Andō Hiroyasu at the power hammer of his forge (retrato-martillo-mecanico.jpg)

    Photo: dealer in Japan.
  2. Still from the short film 「刀鍛冶 安藤広康」 (Katanakaji Andō Hiroyasu), 2019 (video-L5MWAgcMv6A.jpg)

    Still: Takatsu Jun'ya, Nippon Teshigoto Zukan.
  3. The tachi of the 2023 Kanzan Prize, on display (video-Syl-1wTxkZ4.jpg)

    Still: Nagano Teruo.
  4. Andō Hiroyasu at the forge of the Osafune museum, in 2021 (video-zSpDuJbli1Y.jpg)

    Still: そらぴょんぴょん (Sora pyonpyon).
  5. A blade with an engraved dragon, from the portrait 「刀鍛冶 安藤 広康」 (Katanakaji Andō Hiroyasu), 2017 (video-4I8QzFVHkSE.jpg)

    Still: Takatsu Jun'ya.
  6. Engraving a mei, in 2017 (video-2M3th5d86S8.jpg)

    Still: フックン (Fukkun).