Kantei

Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026, by type, and the credit for each image. Only sources that do not sell swords are linked.

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Sources

Encyclopaedias

  1. Japanese Wikipedia: 後鳥羽天皇 (Go-Toba tennō)
  2. Japanese Wikipedia: 番鍛冶 (bankaji)
  3. English Wikipedia: Emperor Go-Toba

Studies

  1. Markus Sesko, “About the goban-kaji” (2013)
  2. Japanese Sword Index: Gotoba

Official databases and museums

  1. Bunka Isan Online: 太刀〈菊御作〉 (tachi kiku gosaku), designation
  2. Bunka Isan Online: 太刀 銘（菊紋）菊御作 (tachi mei kikumon kiku gosaku), record of the Kyoto National Museum
  3. Kyoto National Museum, collection database: E甲211 (E-kō 211)
  4. ColBase: E甲211 (E-kō 211)

NBTHK

  1. NBTHK, the association's journal, issue 721 (February 2017), English translation
  2. NBTHK, the association's journal, issue 738 (July 2018), English translation
  3. NBTHK, the association's journal, issue 810 (July 2024), English translation

Image credits

  1. “Gotoba-in”, a print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi for the series 百人一首之内 (Hyakunin isshu no uchi): the tradition of the emperor at the forge. (kuniyoshi-gotoba-forja.jpg)

    歌川国芳 (Utagawa Kuniyoshi), Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
  2. The portrait of Go-Toba attributed to 藤原信実 (Fujiwara no Nobuzane), a National Treasure of the Minase shrine. (retrato-nobuzane.jpg)

    藤原信実 (Fujiwara no Nobuzane), via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
  3. Poem no. 99 of the Hyakunin isshu, the one by Gotoba-in, in a print by Utagawa Kunisada. (kunisada-hyakunin.jpg)

    歌川国貞 (Utagawa Kunisada), National Diet Library, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
  4. The Minase shrine (水無瀬神宮, Minase jingū), in Shimamoto (Osaka), on the site of his palace. (minase-jingu.jpg)

    663highland, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0.
  5. The Gotoba-in museum at Ama, in the Oki islands, where he lived in exile. (ama-museo.jpg)

    Asturio Cantabrio, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0.
  6. The mausoleum of the emperors Juntoku and Go-Toba at Ōhara (Kyoto). (mausoleo-ohara.jpg)

    Fg2, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
  7. The 菊御作 (kiku gosaku) tachi of the Kyoto National Museum, an Important Cultural Property: 78.1 cm blade. (tachi-kiku-gosaku.jpg)

    Kyoto National Museum, via ColBase · ColBase terms of use.
  8. Poster of the video of the interview with Amatsu Yoshiyuki (video-BbdtGFTdBTQ.jpg)

    Still: 歴史街道 (Rekishi kaidō), PHP 研究所 (Kenkyūsho), on YouTube.
  9. Poster of the video of the tachi with a chrysanthemum (video-30E7ZyqwMTY.jpg)

    Still: 迫田貫路 (probable reading: Sakoda Kanji), on YouTube.