Kantei

Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026, grouped by type. Only the sources that do not sell swords are linked; the others served to check facts, but they are neither cited nor linked.

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Sources

NBTHK: Sword Journal

  1. NBTHK, Sword Journal no. 808 (May 2024): Dewa no Kami Yukihiro and his elder brother Masahiro
  2. NBTHK, Sword Journal no. 818 (March 2025): katana of the first Masahiro from 1639
  3. NBTHK, Sword Journal no. 749 (June 2019): katana by Kawachi Daijō Masahiro in suguha
  4. NBTHK, Sword Journal no. 794 (March 2023)
  5. NBTHK, Sword Journal no. 800 (September 2023)
  6. NBTHK, Sword Journal no. 723 (April 2017)
  7. NBTHK, Sword Journal no. 746 (March 2019)
  8. NBTHK, Sword Journal no. 805 (February 2024)

Museums and official databases

  1. ColBase: katana signed 肥前国佐賀住正広 (Hizen no kuni Saga jū Masahiro), Tokyo National Museum, F-20246
  2. ColBase: katana of the second Masahiro, Tokyo National Museum, F-20018
  3. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: katana blade by Masahiro, 1653 (2012.36a–d)

Encyclopaedias

  1. 近江大掾忠広 (Ōmi Daijō Tadahiro), Japanese Wikipedia
  2. 肥前忠広 (Hizen Tadahiro), Japanese Wikipedia
  3. 刀剣の業物一覧 (tōken no wazamono ichiran), Japanese Wikipedia
  4. List of Wazamono, English Wikipedia
  5. 江島神社 (Enoshima-jinja), Japanese Wikipedia