Sources

Sources

Museums and official databases

1. e-Museum: Long sword signed Mitsutada, Tokyo National Museum
2. ColBase: 太刀 銘光忠 (tachi mei Mitsutada), Tokyo National Museum, F-19968
3. Bunka Isan Online: 太刀〈銘光忠〉 (tachi mei Mitsutada), Tokyo National Museum
4. Bunka Isan Online: 太刀 銘光忠 (tachi mei Mitsutada), Tokugawa Art Museum, National Treasure
5. Bunka Isan Online: 太刀〈銘光忠〉 (tachi mei Mitsutada), Tokugawa Art Museum, Important Cultural Property
6. Bunka Isan Online: 生駒光忠 (Ikoma Mitsutada)
7. Bunka Isan Online: 太刀 (tachi) 〈金象嵌銘光忠 (kinzōgan-mei Mitsutada)／本阿 (Hon'a)〉
8. e-Museum: unsigned katana attributed to Mitsutada, Tokyo National Museum

NBTHK

1. NBTHK Sword Journal no. 717, October 2016 (Meitō Kanshō)

Studies

1. Markus Sesko, “The Kuronbogiri-Kagehide and other Date swords”, Japanese Sword Legends (1 October 2015)
2. Markus Sesko, KANTEI 1 (Sugata 3)

Encyclopaedias

1. Japanese Wikipedia: 光忠 (Mitsutada)
2. Japanese Wikipedia: 燭台切光忠 (Shokudaikiri Mitsutada)
3. Japanese Wikipedia: 長船派 (Osafune-ha)
4. Japanese Wikipedia: 享保名物帳 (Kyōhō meibutsuchō)
5. Japanese Wikipedia: 刀剣の業物一覧 (tōken no wazamono ichiran)
6. Kotobank: 光忠 (Mitsutada), in the Daijisen, the Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, the Nihon Jinmei Daijiten and the Heibonsha encyclopaedia
7. Kotobank: 長船光忠 (Osafune Mitsutada)

Image credits

1. Tachi by Osafune Mitsutada, shortened into a katana, in the Tokyo National Museum. (katana-tnm-vitrina.jpg)

   SLIMHANNYA, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

2. Tachi signed 光忠 (Mitsutada), Important Cultural Property. Tokyo National Museum. (tachi-tnm-1.jpg)

   Tokyo National Museum, via ColBase. Licence: ColBase terms of use. Image reduced.

3. The same tachi, from the other side. (tachi-tnm-2.jpg)

   Tokyo National Museum, via ColBase. Licence: ColBase terms of use. Image reduced.

4. The same tachi: the base of the blade and the nakago, with the worn signature. (tachi-tnm-nakago-1.jpg)

   Tokyo National Museum, via ColBase. Licence: ColBase terms of use. Image reduced.

5. The base of the blade and the nakago, from the other side. (tachi-tnm-nakago-2.jpg)

   Tokyo National Museum, via ColBase. Licence: ColBase terms of use. Image reduced.

6. Katana by Mitsutada with the signature 光忠 (Mitsutada) inlaid in gold (金象嵌銘, kinzōgan-mei); Important Cultural Property. (katana-kinzogan.jpg)

   Kakidai, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

7. The Shokudaikiri Mitsutada (燭台切光忠, Shokudaikiri Mitsutada), burnt in 1923, at an exhibition at Haneda airport, in autumn 2015. (shokudaikiri-haneda.jpg)

   Himeno Masuta, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.