Sources

Sources

Museums and heritage

1. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: katana by Etchū no Kami Fujiwara Takahira, 1622 (2007.478.2a, b)
2. Tokyo Fuji Art Museum (東京富士美術館, Tōkyō Fuji Bijutsukan): katana by Takahira, 1622 (00732)
3. ColBase, Tokyo National Museum: katana by Kashū jū Kanewaka (F-17310)
4. ColBase, Tokyo National Museum: katana by Takahira, 1622 (F-20190)
5. Bunka Isan Online (文化遺産オンライン, Bunka Isan Online): wakizashi by Kashū jū Kanewaka, Takaoka City Museum
6. Art Commons, National Art Center, Tokyo: the exhibition 「名刀と槍」 (Meitō to yari), Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, 2006

Consulted, without a link

1. Maeda Tosa-no-kami Family Museum, Kanazawa: record of the spear signed Kanewaka

NBTHK

1. NBTHK, Sword Journal no. 749, June 2019 (in English)
2. NBTHK, Sword Journal no. 794, March 2023 (in English)

Studies

1. Japanese Sword Index, “The Kashu Kanewaka School”
2. Markus Sesko, “Kantei 1: Sugata 6”
3. Markus Sesko, “Kantei 3: Hamon & Bōshi”

Dictionaries and encyclopaedias

1. 初代加州兼若 (Shodai Kashū Kanewaka), Japanese Wikipedia
2. Kotobank: 辻村高平 (Tsujimura Takahira), Nihon Jinmei Daijiten+Plus
3. Kotobank: 兼若 (Kanewaka), Sekai Daihyakka Jiten
4. 刀剣の業物一覧 (Tōken no wazamono ichiran), Japanese Wikipedia
5. List of Wazamono, English Wikipedia

Image credits

1. Katana by Takahira of 1622: whole, the point and both sides of the tang (met-takahira-1622.jpg, met-takahira-1622-kissaki.jpg, met-takahira-1622-mei.jpg, met-takahira-1622-fecha.jpg)

   The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, public domain.

2. Katana by Takahira of 1622, both sides (fuji-takahira-1622.jpg)

   Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, CC0 1.0.