Kantei

Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026. A video that cannot be published served to check facts, but it is neither cited nor linked.

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Sources

Official databases and museums

  1. Agency for Cultural Affairs, database of designated properties: the Ōkanehira (大包平, Ōkanehira)
  2. Bunka Isan Online: the unsigned tachi attributed to Kanehira in the Tsuchiura City Museum
  3. ColBase, Tokyo National Museum: the Ōkanehira (F-19932)
  4. e-Museum: the tachi signed 備前国包平作 (Bizen no kuni Kanehira saku), the Ōkanehira

NBTHK

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

Encyclopaedias and dictionaries

  1. 包平 (Kanehira), Japanese Wikipedia
  2. 大包平 (Ōkanehira), Japanese Wikipedia
  3. 古備前派 (Ko-Bizen-ha), Japanese Wikipedia
  4. 刀剣の業物一覧 (Tōken no wazamono ichiran), Japanese Wikipedia
  5. 包平 (Kanehira), Kotobank (Daijisen, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten and Nihonjinmei Daijiten+Plus)

Image credits

  1. The Ōkanehira (大包平, Ōkanehira), omote side. National Treasure, 12th century (okanehira-omote.jpg)

    ColBase (Tokyo National Museum, F-19932).
  2. The Ōkanehira on display at the Tokyo National Museum (okanehira-vitrina.jpg)

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

    ColBase (Tokyo National Museum, F-19932).
  4. The Ōkanehira: the tip and the bōshi, ura side (okanehira-kissaki-ura.jpg)

    ColBase (Tokyo National Museum, F-19932).
  5. The Ōkanehira: the unshortened tang, with the long signature 備前国包平作 (Bizen no kuni Kanehira saku) (okanehira-nakago-omote.jpg)

    ColBase (Tokyo National Museum, F-19932).
  6. The Ōkanehira: the tang, ura side (okanehira-nakago-ura.jpg)

    ColBase (Tokyo National Museum, F-19932).
  7. The Ōkanehira, ura side (okanehira-ura.jpg)

    ColBase (Tokyo National Museum, F-19932).
  8. The Ōkanehira in a plate of the 『国宝図録』 (Kokuhō Zuroku), the 1952 catalogue of National Treasures (okanehira-kokuho-zuroku.jpg)

    文化財協会 (Bunkazai Kyōkai), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
  9. Tachi signed 包平 (Kanehira) in two characters, from the Satake house of Kubota, in Dewa, according to its label; 78.7 cm (tachi-satake.jpg)

    SLIMHANNYA, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.