Kantei

Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 5 October 2026 and the credits of all the images.

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Sources

NBTHK

  1. NBTHK, Sword Journal no. 745 (February 2019), Kantei-tō no. 3 (PDF)

Museums

  1. Wikimedia Commons: display case at the Honolulu Museum of Art with the blade by Nobuhide (13072.1)

Studies

  1. Markus Sesko, “The case of Kiyomaro”
  2. Markus Sesko, “Ningen mukotsu (人間無骨)”
  3. Markus Sesko, “Kantei 1: Sugata #2”
  4. Markus Sesko, “Kantei 1: Sugata #4”
  5. Markus Sesko, “Kantei 1: Sugata #6”
  6. Markus Sesko, “Kantei 1: Sugata #7”
  7. Japanese Sword Index: Tomita Kiyama’s list of shintō smiths (1933), translated by Jinsoo Kim

Dictionaries and encyclopaedias

  1. 日本刀 (Nihontō), Japanese Wikipedia
  2. 刀工 (Tōkō), Japanese Wikipedia

Consulted, without a link

  1. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: record of the katana 11.11007

Image credits

  1. Katana signed 栗原謙司信秀 (Kurihara Kenji Nobuhide), of the twelfth month of 1855 (Ansei 2): a dragon engraved on one side and a sword on the other (katana-1855-horimono.jpg)

    Photo: dealer in Japan.
  2. Katana signed 筑前守信秀 (Chikuzen no Kami Nobuhide), of the sixth month of 1865 (Keiō 1) (katana-1865.jpg)

    Photo: dealer in Japan.
  3. Katana signed 於浦賀信秀 (Uraga ni oite Nobuhide, “Nobuhide, at Uraga”), of the eighth month of 1853 (Kaei 6) (katana-1853-uraga.jpg)

    Photo: dealer in Japan.
  4. Display case at the Honolulu Museum of Art: at the top, the blade by Nobuhide, of around 1880, in its wooden mount (honolulu-vitrina.jpg)

    Team_Yatta (Wikipedia Loves Art), via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5.