Kantei

Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026, all with their link, and the credit of each image.

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Sources

Official records and museums

  1. Bunka Isan Online, tachi 太刀 銘久国 (tachi mei Hisakuni), Important Cultural Property
  2. Bunka Isan Online, tantō 短刀 銘久国 (tantō mei Hisakuni), Important Cultural Property
  3. Bunka Isan Online, tachi of the Itsukushima shrine with the signature Hisakuni
  4. Bunka Isan Online, ken of the Nikkō Tōshōgū signed Hisakuni, Kōan 3 (1280)
  5. ColBase, katana 刀 銘久国 (katana mei Hisakuni), Tokyo National Museum (F-8)
  6. Kyoto National Museum, list of works of the exhibition “Kyō no katana” (2018)

Studies

  1. Markus Sesko, “Kantei 4, Yamashiro 6: Awataguchi school 1”
  2. Markus Sesko, “Kantei 4, Yamashiro 7: Awataguchi school 2” (Hisakuni)

Encyclopaedias

  1. 粟田口久国 (Awataguchi Hisakuni), Japanese Wikipedia
  2. List of National Treasures of Japan (crafts: swords), English Wikipedia
  3. 粟田口派 (Awataguchi-ha), Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, on Kotobank

Image credits

  1. The tachi that is a National Treasure, plate of 1952 (tachi-kokuho-1952.jpg)

    Photo: 文化財協会 (Bunkazai Kyōkai), 『国宝図録』 (Kokuhō Zuroku), vol. 1, 1952. Public domain.
  2. The katana of the Tokyo National Museum, in five photos (katana-tnm-*.jpg)

    Photo: Tokyo National Museum, via ColBase, free to use with credit to the source.
  3. The entrance of the Hisakuni shrine (hisakuni-jinja.jpg)

    Photo: KENPEI, 2010. CC BY-SA 3.0.