Sources

Sources

NBTHK

1. NBTHK, Sword Journal no. 802 (November 2023), English translation: Shinkai and Gō Yoshihiro

Official records and museums

1. Bunka Isan Online: the Matsui-gō
2. Bunka Isan Online: the Kuwana-gō
3. Bunka Isan Online: the Kitano-gō
4. Bunka Isan Online: katana 無銘 伝義弘 (mumei, den Yoshihiro) of the Tokugawa Art Museum
5. ColBase: the Kitano-gō (F-208), Tokyo National Museum
6. ColBase: katana 郷義弘 (Gō Yoshihiro), F-19539, Tokyo National Museum
7. ColBase: the Kuwana-gō, Kyoto National Museum
8. ColBase: katana 金象嵌銘 義弘 薫山 (kinzōgan-mei Yoshihiro, Kunzan), Kyoto National Museum

Encyclopaedias

1. Japanese Wikipedia: 郷義弘 (Gō Yoshihiro)
2. Japanese Wikipedia: 稲葉江 (Inaba-gō)
3. Japanese Wikipedia: 桑名江 (Kuwana-gō)
4. Japanese Wikipedia: 松井江 (Matsui-gō)
5. Japanese Wikipedia: 五月雨江 (Samidare-gō)
6. Japanese Wikipedia: 村雲江 (Murakumo-gō)
7. Japanese Wikipedia: 享保名物帳 (Kyōhō meibutsuchō)
8. Japanese Wikipedia: 刀剣の業物一覧 (tōken no wazamono ichiran)
9. Kotobank: 郷義弘 (Gō Yoshihiro), in the Nihon Jinmei Daijiten and the Britannica

Scholars

1. Markus Sesko, “Kantei 4 – Yamashiro 12: the Awataguchi school”
2. Markus Sesko, “Kantei 3 – Hamon & Bōshi 1-2”

Image credits

1. The Inaba-gō in a 1952 catalogue photo. (commons-inaba-go-oshigata.jpg)

   Cultural Properties Association (文化財協会, Bunkazai Kyōkai), 1952, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

2. Katana 郷義弘 (Gō Yoshihiro) of the Tokyo National Museum, whole. (tnm-F19539-1.jpg)

   Tokyo National Museum (東京国立博物館, Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan), via ColBase. Free use crediting ColBase.

3. The Kitano-gō: the kissaki. (tnm-kitano-go-kissaki-1.jpg)

   Tokyo National Museum (東京国立博物館, Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan), via ColBase. Free use crediting ColBase.

4. The Kitano-gō: the gold attribution 江磨上 光徳 (Gō suriage, Kōtoku) and its monogram. (tnm-kitano-go-nakago-2.jpg)

   Tokyo National Museum (東京国立博物館, Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan), via ColBase. Free use crediting ColBase.

5. The Kuwana-gō: the gold inscription 本多美濃守所持 (Honda Mino no Kami shoji). (kyoto-kuwana-go-nakago-1.jpg)

   Kyoto National Museum (京都国立博物館, Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan); photo by 岡田愛 (probable reading: Okada Ai), via ColBase. Free use crediting ColBase.

6. The Kuwana-gō: the gold attribution by Hon'ami Kōtoku. (kyoto-kuwana-go-nakago-2.jpg)

   Kyoto National Museum (京都国立博物館, Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan); photo by 岡田愛 (probable reading: Okada Ai), via ColBase. Free use crediting ColBase.

7. The same katana: the shortened tang. (tnm-F19539-nakago.jpg)

   Tokyo National Museum (東京国立博物館, Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan), via ColBase. Free use crediting ColBase.

8. The Kuwana-gō, whole. (kyoto-kuwana-go-1.jpg)

   Kyoto National Museum (京都国立博物館, Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan); photo by 岡田愛 (probable reading: Okada Ai), via ColBase. Free use crediting ColBase.

9. The Kitano-gō, whole. (tnm-kitano-go-1.jpg)

   Tokyo National Museum (東京国立博物館, Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan), via ColBase. Free use crediting ColBase.