Kantei

Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026, by type, and the credit for each image. The ColBase photos have been reduced in size.

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Sources

Official records

  1. Bunka Isan Online: Nakatsukasa Masamune (record 189046)
  2. Bunka Isan Online: Hōchō Masamune of the Eisei Bunko (record 192583)
  3. Bunka Isan Online: Hyūga Masamune (record 149941)
  4. Bunka Isan Online: Fudō Masamune (record 131847)
  5. Bunka Isan Online: Kanze Masamune (record 159445)
  6. Bunka Isan Online: Ishida Masamune (record 209789)
  7. ColBase: Kanze Masamune, Tokyo National Museum (F-19916)
  8. ColBase: Tsugaru Masamune, Tokyo National Museum (F-19975)

Encyclopaedias

  1. Japanese Wikipedia: 正宗 (Masamune)
  2. English Wikipedia: Masamune
  3. Kotobank: 正宗 (Masamune), with Nipponica, Heibonsha, Britannica and Yamakawa
  4. Japanese Wikipedia: 享保名物帳 (Kyōhō meibutsuchō)
  5. Japanese Wikipedia: 刀剣の業物一覧 (tōken no wazamono ichiran)

Studies

  1. Markus Sesko: The Kotegiri-Masamune (2013)
  2. Markus Sesko: A Masamune for appraisal (in the late Edo period) (2026)

Image credits

  1. The Kanze Masamune (kanze-masamune.jpg)

    Kakidai, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
  2. The Kanze Masamune: the point (kanze-masamune-kissaki.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, via ColBase (reduced image).
  3. The Kanze Masamune: the temper (kanze-masamune-hamon.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, via ColBase (reduced image).
  4. The Kanze Masamune: the nakago (kanze-masamune-nakago.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, via ColBase (reduced image).
  5. The Tsugaru Masamune (tsugaru-masamune.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, via ColBase (reduced image).
  6. The Tsugaru Masamune: the nakago (tsugaru-masamune-nakago.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, via ColBase (reduced image).
  7. The Tsugaru Masamune: the temper (tsugaru-masamune-hamon.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, via ColBase (reduced image).
  8. The Nakatsukasa Masamune (nakatsukasa-masamune.jpg)

    Kakidai, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
  9. The Ishida Masamune (ishida-masamune.jpg)

    SLIMHANNYA, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
  10. The Ishida Masamune: the temper (ishida-masamune-hamon.jpg)

    Kakidai, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
  11. The Musashi Masamune (musashi-masamune.jpg)

    SLIMHANNYA, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
  12. The Hyūga Masamune with its mounting (hyuga-masamune-koshirae.jpg)

    SLIMHANNYA, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
  13. The Hyūga Masamune, plate (hyuga-masamune-lamina.jpg)

    Association of Cultural Properties, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
  14. Unsigned tantō at the Tokyo National Museum (tanto-masamune-tnm.jpg)

    Kakidai, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
  15. Oshigata of the Honjō Masamune (honjo-masamune-oshigata.jpg)

    Unknown author, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
  16. Poster of the video of the Tokugawa Art Museum (video-u1SWCrFwVfo.jpg)

    Still: 徳川美術館チャンネル (Tokugawa Bijutsukan channeru), on YouTube.
  17. Poster of the video of the Tsugaru Masamune (video-SoIJ9DtFosI.jpg)

    Still: 美術史チャンネル (Bijutsushi Channel), on YouTube.
  18. Poster of the video of the Fukuyama exhibition (video-x38rDSYWzkk.jpg)

    Still: History of Katana 【HOK】, on YouTube.
  19. Poster of the news item on the Fukuyama exhibition (video-QpmLFmGsSas.jpg)

    Still: Hiroshima News TSS, on YouTube.