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Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026. A study article and a video that cannot be published served to check facts, but they are neither cited nor linked.

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Sources

Official databases and museums

  1. Agency for Cultural Affairs, database of designated properties: the Koryū Kagemitsu (小竜景光, Koryū Kagemitsu)
  2. Agency for Cultural Affairs, database of designated properties: the tantō of 1323 (Kenshin Kagemitsu)
  3. Bunka Isan Online: the tachi of Kagemitsu and Kagemasa (景光・景政, Kagemitsu Kagemasa)
  4. ColBase, Tokyo National Museum: the Koryū Kagemitsu (F-130)
  5. ColBase, Tokyo National Museum: the naginata of Kagemitsu (F-115)
  6. e-Museum: the tachi Koryū Kagemitsu (小龍景光, Koryū Kagemitsu)
  7. e-Museum: the naginata of Kagemitsu

NBTHK

  1. NBTHK, catalogue of the exhibition 珠玉の名品展 (Shugyoku no meihinten), 2021

Encyclopaedias and dictionaries

  1. 景光 (Kagemitsu), Japanese Wikipedia
  2. 小竜景光 (Koryū Kagemitsu), Japanese Wikipedia
  3. 謙信景光 (Kenshin Kagemitsu), Japanese Wikipedia
  4. 長船派 (Osafune-ha), Japanese Wikipedia
  5. 刀剣の業物一覧 (Tōken no wazamono ichiran), Japanese Wikipedia
  6. 享保名物帳 (Kyōhō meibutsuchō), Japanese Wikipedia
  7. 景光 (Kagemitsu), Kotobank (Nihonjinmei Daijiten+Plus)

Image credits

  1. The Koryū Kagemitsu (小竜景光, Koryū Kagemitsu), omote side. National Treasure, 1322 (koryu-omote.jpg)

    ColBase (Tokyo National Museum, F-130).
  2. Tachi by Kagemitsu dated 1309, on display at the Tokyo National Museum, according to the description of the photo (tachi-1309.jpg)

    SLIMHANNYA, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
  3. The Koryū Kagemitsu: the tip and the bōshi, omote side (koryu-kissaki-omote.jpg)

    ColBase (Tokyo National Museum, F-130).
  4. The Koryū Kagemitsu: the tip and the bōshi, ura side (koryu-kissaki-ura.jpg)

    ColBase (Tokyo National Museum, F-130).
  5. The Koryū Kagemitsu: the shortened tang and the kurikara dragon in relief, omote side (koryu-nakago-omote.jpg)

    ColBase (Tokyo National Museum, F-130).
  6. The Koryū Kagemitsu: the tang and the bonji in relief, ura side (koryu-nakago-ura.jpg)

    ColBase (Tokyo National Museum, F-130).
  7. The Koryū Kagemitsu, ura side (koryu-ura.jpg)

    ColBase (Tokyo National Museum, F-130).
  8. The Koryū Kagemitsu in a plate of the 『国宝図録』 (Kokuhō Zuroku), the 1952 catalogue of National Treasures (koryu-kokuho-zuroku.jpg)

    文化財協会 (Bunkazai Kyōkai), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
  9. The Koryū Kagemitsu on display at the Tokyo National Museum (koryu-vitrina-kakidai.jpg)

    Kakidai, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
  10. The Koryū Kagemitsu in its display case at the Tokyo National Museum (koryu-vitrina-underbar.jpg)

    Underbar dk, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
  11. Tachi mounting photographed with the blade, under the same Tokyo National Museum number (F-130) (koryu-koshirae.jpg)

    ColBase (Tokyo National Museum, F-130).
  12. Naginata by Kagemitsu, 1322. Important Cultural Property (naginata-1322.jpg)

    ColBase (Tokyo National Museum, F-115).