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 and dictionaries

  1. Japanese Wikipedia: へし切長谷部 (Heshikiri Hasebe)
  2. Japanese Wikipedia: 正宗十哲 (Masamune jittetsu)
  3. Kotobank: 国重 (Kunishige), in the 日本人名大辞典 (Nihon jinmei daijiten) and the デジタル大辞泉 (Dejitaru daijisen)

Studies

  1. Markus Sesko, “Kantei 4 – Yamashiro #30 – Hasebe School 1” (2017)
  2. Markus Sesko, “Kantei 4 – Yamashiro #31 – Hasebe School 2” (2017)

Official databases and museums

  1. Bunka Isan Online: the Heshikiri Hasebe, designation
  2. Bunka Isan Online: 刀〈無銘伝長谷部国重〉 (katana mumei den Hasebe Kunishige)
  3. Bunka Isan Online: 大刀 銘 長谷部国重 貞和五年 (tachi mei Hasebe Kunishige Jōwa go-nen), Tokyo National Museum
  4. Bunka Isan Online: 短刀 銘長谷部国重 (tantō mei Hasebe Kunishige), Kyoto National Museum
  5. ColBase: Tokyo National Museum, F-19996
  6. ColBase: Kyoto National Museum, E甲557 (E-kō 557)

NBTHK

  1. NBTHK, the association's journal, issue 721 (February 2017), English translation
  2. NBTHK, the association's journal, issue 758 (March 2020), English translation
  3. NBTHK, the association's journal, issue 808 (May 2024), English translation

Image credits

  1. The Heshikiri Hasebe in the 1957 catalogue of National Treasures: the point, the two sides of the tang with the attribution in gold and the whole blade. (heshikiri-kokuho-zuroku.jpg)

    Committee for the Protection of Cultural Properties, 国宝図録 (Kokuhō zuroku), 1957, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
  2. The Heshikiri Hasebe with its mounting, in a 1916 book about Kuroda Josui. (heshikiri-1916.jpg)

    金子堅太郎 (Kaneko Kentarō), 黒田如水伝 (Kuroda Josui den), 1916, National Diet Library, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
  3. The tantō 短刀 銘長谷部国重 (tantō mei Hasebe Kunishige) of the Kyoto National Museum: 37.3 cm blade. (tanto-kyoto.jpg)

    Kyoto National Museum, via ColBase · ColBase terms of use.
  4. A tantō by Hasebe Kunishige with its mounting, at an exhibition in 2021. (tanto-exposicion.jpg)

    SLIMHANNYA, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0.
  5. The modern mounting of the tachi dated 1349 in the Tokyo National Museum; the blade is not visible. (tachi-1349-montura.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, via ColBase · ColBase terms of use.
  6. Poster of the Fukuoka news report (video-LY6xQmAwtdo.jpg)

    Still: D-Channel, on YouTube.