Kantei

Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026. A good part of his biography and his prizes comes from profiles by associations and portals that are neither cited nor linked, and is therefore marked as attribution; press that cannot be linked is cited by name.

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Sources

NBTHK competitions and catalogues

  1. NBTHK, catalogue of the 平成の名刀・名工展 (Heisei no Meitō Meikōten) exhibition, 2019
  2. NBTHK, results of the 平成の名刀・名工展 (Heisei no Meitō Meikōten)
  3. NBTHK, catalogue of the 現代刀職展 (Gendai Tōshokuten) 2022

Press, museums and others

  1. 山陰中央新報 (San'in Chūō Shinpō), 4 October 2021: his forty years as a swordsmith and the 2021 exhibition

    No link.
  2. 中国新聞 (Chūgoku Shinbun): articles on Mikami Sadanao

    No link.
  3. 頼山陽史跡資料館 (Rai San'yō Shiseki Shiryōkan), Hiroshima: exhibitions of 2017 and 2021

    No link.
  4. Quest: DVD 『鍛刀一筋 刀匠 三上貞直』 (Tantō hitosuji tōshō Mikami Sadanao)

Image credits

  1. Mikami Sadanao (retrato.png)

    Photo: 中国新聞 (Chūgoku Shinbun).
  2. Mikami Sadanao at the hearth (fragua.png)

    Photo: 中国新聞 (Chūgoku Shinbun).
  3. Blades of his at the 2021 exhibition of the Rai San'yō Shiseki Shiryōkan (exposicion-2021.jpg)

    Photo: 山陰中央新報 (San'in Chūō Shinpō).
  4. A talk of his at the 2017 exhibition of the Rai San'yō Shiseki Shiryōkan (charla-2017.jpg)

    Photo: 頼山陽史跡資料館 (Rai San'yō Shiseki Shiryōkan), Hiroshima Prefectural Board of Education.
  5. A tantō: both sides (comercio-tanto-1.png)

    Photo: dealer in Japan.
  6. The same tantō (comercio-tanto-2.png)

    Photo: dealer in Japan.
  7. The tantō’s mounting (comercio-tanto-koshirae.png)

    Photo: dealer in Japan.