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, and their photos carry the generic credit.

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Sources

Encyclopaedias

  1. 刀剣の業物一覧 (tōken no wazamono ichiran), Japanese Wikipedia

Researchers

  1. Markus Sesko, “Cutting ability nicknames of swords”

Image credits

  1. A wakizashi signed 豊後守源正全 (Bungo no Kami Minamoto Masayasu): the rubbing and both sides of the blade (wakizashi-hoja.jpg)

    Photo: dealer in Japan.
  2. The point of the same wakizashi (wakizashi-kissaki.jpg)

    Photo: dealer in Japan.
  3. The temper of the same wakizashi, section by section (wakizashi-hamon.jpg)

    Photo: dealer in Japan.
  4. The tang of the same wakizashi, with the signature (wakizashi-nakago.jpg)

    Photo: dealer in Japan.