Kantei

Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026, grouped by type, and the credits for all the images. 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

Museums and official databases

  1. Tokyo Fuji Art Museum: katana signed 大和大掾藤原正則 (Yamato Daijō Fujiwara Masanori), collection record

Encyclopaedias

  1. 刀剣の業物一覧 (tōken no wazamono ichiran), Japanese Wikipedia
  2. 秋田県指定文化財一覧 (Akita-ken shitei bunkazai ichiran), Japanese Wikipedia

Researchers

  1. Markus Sesko, “A reference to Kotetsu’s scholastic background”

Consulted, without a link

  1. Akita prefecture: list of cultural properties designated by the State and the prefecture, crafts (2021)

Image credits

  1. Katana signed 大和大掾藤原正則 (Yamato Daijō Fujiwara Masanori), both sides (katana-hoja.jpg)

    Tokyo Fuji Art Museum · CC0 1.0.
  2. The point of the same katana (katana-kissaki.jpg)

    Tokyo Fuji Art Museum · CC0 1.0. Detail of the museum’s photo.
  3. The carvings next to the tang (katana-horimono.jpg)

    Tokyo Fuji Art Museum · CC0 1.0. Detail of the museum’s photo.
  4. The tang with the signature (katana-nakago.jpg)

    Tokyo Fuji Art Museum · CC0 1.0. Detail of the museum’s photo.