Kantei

Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026 and the credits for all the images.

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Sources

Museums

  1. ColBase, Tokyo National Museum: katana of 1894 (F-68)
  2. ColBase, Tokyo National Museum: katana of 1915 with the dedication in Spanish (F-69)
  3. ColBase, Tokyo National Museum: katana of 1915, the enthronement one (F-71)
  4. ColBase, Tokyo National Museum: katana of 1898 (F-73)
  5. ColBase, Tokyo National Museum: tantō of 1912 with a Navy dirk mounting (F-75)
  6. ColBase, Tokyo National Museum: katana of 1913 (F-16488)
  7. ColBase, Tokyo National Museum: tantō of 1913 (F-16494)
  8. ColBase, Kyoto National Museum: katana of 1913 in the Bizen Ichimonji manner (E甲328)
  9. ColBase, Kyoto National Museum: iron mirror of 1915 (E甲582)
  10. Kyoto National Museum, collection database: the three katana of the Nagata family
  11. Bunka Isan Online (文化遺産オンライン, Bunka Isan Online): works by 月山貞一 (Gassan Sadakazu)
  12. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: tantō and mounting by Gassan Sadakazu (32.100.470)

Libraries

  1. National Diet Library, reference service: 江戸から明治期の刀工・月山貞一について知りたい (Edo kara Meiji-ki no tōkō Gassan Sadakazu ni tsuite shiritai), with the works of Honma Kōhaku and Nakamiya Keidō

Dictionaries and encyclopaedias

  1. Kotobank: 月山貞一 (Gassan Sadakazu): 20世紀日本人名事典 (Nijusseiki Nihon jinmei jiten) and Nipponica
  2. 月山 (Gassan), the family of swordsmiths, Japanese Wikipedia
  3. 日本刀 (Nihontō), Japanese Wikipedia
  4. 元帥杖 (Gensuijō), Japanese Wikipedia
  5. 渋沢平九郎 (Shibusawa Heikurō), Japanese Wikipedia

Image credits

  1. Katana of 1915 signed at the age of 81: the tang and the dragon (tnm-f71-nakago.jpg)

    ColBase, Tokyo National Museum (F-71).
  2. The enthronement katana, whole (tnm-f71.jpg)

    ColBase, Tokyo National Museum (F-71).
  3. Katana of 1898, whole (tnm-f73.jpg)

    ColBase, Tokyo National Museum (F-73).
  4. Katana of 1898: the tang and the dragon (tnm-f73-horimono.jpg)

    ColBase, Tokyo National Museum (F-73).
  5. Katana of 1915 with the dedication in Spanish, whole (tnm-f69.jpg)

    ColBase, Tokyo National Museum (F-69).
  6. The signature and the dedication in Spanish (tnm-f69-nakago.jpg)

    ColBase, Tokyo National Museum (F-69).
  7. Navy dirk mounting of the 1912 tantō (tnm-f75-montura.jpg)

    ColBase, Tokyo National Museum (F-75).
  8. Katana of 1913 in the Bizen Ichimonji manner (kioto-e328.jpg)

    ColBase, Kyoto National Museum (E甲328); photo: Okada Ai.
  9. Tantō of 1870: the dragon and the point (met-tanto-1870.jpg)

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, public domain.
  10. Tantō of 1870: the signature (met-tanto-1870-mei.jpg)

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, public domain.