Kantei

Bibliography

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026 and the credit for each image. Two videos that cannot be published served to check facts, but they are neither cited nor linked.

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Sources

Encyclopaedias and dictionaries

  1. 兼道 (Kanemichi), Kotobank (Nihonjinmei Daijiten+Plus)
  2. 金道 (Kinmichi), Kotobank (Nihonjinmei Daijiten+Plus)
  3. 越中守正俊 (Etchū no Kami Masatoshi), Japanese Wikipedia
  4. 村正 (Muramasa), Japanese Wikipedia: the section on Mishina Hirofusa
  5. 日本刀 (nihontō), Japanese Wikipedia
  6. 刀剣の業物一覧 (Tōken no wazamono ichiran), Japanese Wikipedia

Studies

  1. Markus Sesko, Masters of Keichō Shintō (PDF preview)

Museums

  1. Kyoto National Museum: tantō signed 陸奥守大道 (Mutsu no Kami Ōmichi), EK414
  2. Metropolitan Museum of Art: tantō by Kanemichi, 19.53.1
  3. Metropolitan Museum of Art: tantō by Kanemichi, 91.2.2

Consulted, without a link

  1. 馬渕隆 (Mabuchi Takashi), “美濃の刀剣” (Mino no tōken), research report no. 1 of the Gifu Prefectural Museum of History, 1980

Image credits

  1. The tantō signed 陸奥守大道 (Mutsu no Kami Ōmichi) in the Kyoto National Museum (EK414), of the 16th century: the side with the signature. (tanto-knm-ek414-mei.jpg)

    Kyoto National Museum. © Kyoto National Museum.
  2. The same tantō in the Kyoto National Museum, from the other side. (tanto-knm-ek414-ura.jpg)

    Kyoto National Museum. © Kyoto National Museum.