Kantei

Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026, by type, and the credit for each image. Some sources served to check facts, but are neither cited nor linked.

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Museums and official records

  1. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: blade signed by Kanemoto Magoroku (36.25.1655a-d)
  2. Bunka Isan Online: tantō signed “Nōshū Akasaka-jū Kanemoto saku”, Tokyo National Museum (record 460540)

Encyclopaedias and studies

  1. Japanese Wikipedia: 孫六兼元 (Magoroku Kanemoto)
  2. Japanese Wikipedia: 青木兼元 (Aoki Kanemoto)
  3. English Wikipedia: List of Wazamono
  4. Japanese Sword Index: Mino

Image credits

  1. Katana by Seki (Magoroku) Kanemoto, Tokyo National Museum (katana-seki-kanemoto-tnm.jpg)

    SLIMHANNYA, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
  2. Katana by Magoroku Kanemoto with its mounting (katana-kanemoto-montura.jpg)

    SLIMHANNYA, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
  3. The same katana, another shot (katana-kanemoto-otra-toma.jpg)

    SLIMHANNYA, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
  4. Poster of the video of the Seki exhibition (video-VcUh6s2cFn4.jpg)

    Still: MIYA, on YouTube.
  5. Poster of the video of the summary of the exhibition (video-5maTEmtccHM.jpg)

    Still: 足屋コーヒー (probable reading: Ashiya Kōhī), on YouTube.
  6. Poster of the video of the Seki museum (video-lMvm81Z41vc.jpg)

    Still: trinity_carple, on YouTube.