Kantei

Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026, grouped by type, and the credits for every image. Only the sources that do not sell swords are linked; the others served to check facts, but they are neither cited nor linked.

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Sources

Researchers

  1. Japanese Sword Index, “The Kashu Kanewaka School”, by Anthony Thomas

Encyclopaedias

  1. 刀剣の業物一覧 (tōken no wazamono ichiran), Japanese Wikipedia

Museums

  1. Art Commons: the exhibition “Meitō to yari” of the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art (2006)

Consulted, without a link

  1. Ishikawa Prefecture, Board of Education: record of the katana of 1678, among the cultural properties of the prefecture
  2. Edo-Tokyo Museum, digital archive: record of the wakizashi 賀州住藤原清平 (Kashū jū Fujiwara Kiyohira)

Image credits

  1. The katana of 1678 of the Toyokuni shrine (katana-1678.jpg)

    Ishikawa Prefecture, Board of Education. © Ishikawa Prefecture.