Sources

Sources

NBTHK competitions and catalogues

1. NBTHK, catalogue of the 平成の名刀・名工展 (Heisei no Meitō Meikōten) exhibition, 2019
2. NBTHK, results of the 平成の名刀・名工展 (Heisei no Meitō Meikōten)
3. NBTHK, catalogue of the 新作名刀展 (Shinsaku Meitōten) of the 2017 fiscal year
4. NBTHK, catalogue of the 現代刀職展 (Gendai Tōshokuten) 2021
5. NBTHK, catalogue of the 現代刀職展 (Gendai Tōshokuten) 2022
6. NBTHK, jury of the 現代刀職展 (Gendai Tōshokuten) 2023, forging division
7. NBTHK, catalogue of the 現代刀職展 (Gendai Tōshokuten) 2024
8. NBTHK, list of works of the Gendai Tōshokuten 2025, in English
9. NBTHK, list of works of the Gendai Tōshokuten 2026, in English

Encyclopaedias

1. 河内國平 (Kawachi Kunihira), Japanese Wikipedia

Image credits

1. Kawachi Kunihira at his Higashi-Yoshino forge (retrato-forja.jpg)

   Photo: 宮田昌彦 (Miyata Masahiko).

2. Kawachi Kunihira at the hearth (forja-fuego.jpg)

   Photo: 宮田昌彦 (Miyata Masahiko).

3. Hammering on the anvil (forja-yunque.jpg)

   Photo: 宮田昌彦 (Miyata Masahiko).

4. The entrance of the forge, with the sign 國平鍛刀場 (Kunihira tantōjō, “Kunihira’s forge”) (taller-entrada.jpg)

   Photo: 宮田昌彦 (Miyata Masahiko).

5. Bars and blades in the workshop (taller-hojas.jpg)

   Photo: 宮田昌彦 (Miyata Masahiko).

6. A conversation in the guest room (sala-invitados.jpg)

   Photo: 宮田昌彦 (Miyata Masahiko).

7. A katana: blade, temper and tang (obra-katana.jpg)

   Photo: the smith himself.

8. Tachi of 1989 with an ashide-e hyōgo-kusari mounting (obra-tachi-ashide-1989.jpg)

   Photo: the smith himself.

9. Tachi of 1991 with a shishi-zukuri hyōgo-kusari mounting (obra-tachi-shishi-1991.jpg)

   Photo: the smith himself.

10. Tantō with horimono (obra-tanto-horimono.jpg)

    Photo: the smith himself.

11. Wakizashi named 銀波 (probable reading: Ginpa) (obra-wakizashi-ginpa.jpg)

    Photo: 大塚巧藝新社 (probable reading: Ōtsuka Kōgei Shinsha).

12. Tantō (obra-tanto.jpg)

    Photo: the smith himself.