Sources

Sources

NBTHK competitions and catalogues

1. NBTHK, catalogue of the exhibition 平成の名刀・名工展 (Heisei no Meitō Meikōten), 2019
2. NBTHK, catalogue of the 2022 現代刀職展 (Gendai Tōshokuten)
3. NBTHK, catalogue of the 2025 現代刀職展 (Gendai Tōshokuten)
4. NBTHK, list of works of the 2025 Gendai Tōshokuten, in English

Encyclopaedias

1. 宮入行平 (Miyairi Yukihira), Japanese Wikipedia
2. 宮入行平 (Miyairi Yukihira), Kotobank (20-seiki Nihonjin Jinmei Jiten and Nihon Jinmei Daijiten Plus)
3. 大隅俊平 (Ōsumi Toshihira), his pupil, Japanese Wikipedia

Consulted, without a link

1. Nagano Prefectural Art Museum, the artist’s entry in the catalogue of the NAM Collection 26 display
2. Art Commons: exhibition “Tō no geijutsu”, Hirakushi Denchū Museum of Ibara (2010), and “Miyairi ichimon no tōken”, Sano Museum (2005)
3. Go! Nagano, tourism website of Nagano Prefecture: the iron of the Miyairi school
4. Markus Sesko, list of mukansa and Living National Treasures (2018)
5. Miyairi Shōhei, 『刀匠一代』 (Tōshō ichidai), 1971, not consulted

Image credits

1. Wakizashi of a daishō, signed 葛尾里住人昭平作 (Katsurao-sato jūnin Akihira saku), with サムハラ (Samuhara) on the other side; NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon papers. (daisho-wakizashi.jpg)

   Photo: dealer in Japan.

2. The katana of the same daishō, signed 昭平作 (Akihira saku), with サムハラ (Samuhara) on the other side; NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon papers. (daisho-katana.jpg)

   Photo: dealer in Japan.

3. Tachi signed 宮入昭平作 (Miyairi Akihira saku) and dated 昭和廿七年八月日 (Shōwa nijūshichi-nen hachigatsu hi), August 1952: the two sides of the blade. (tachi-1952.jpg)

   Photo: dealer in Japan.

4. Katana signed 宮入昭平作 (Miyairi Akihira saku), with NBTHK Hozon papers: the signature, the temper section by section and the point. (katana-hozon-detalles.jpg)

   Photo: dealer in Japan.

5. The same katana, whole, from both sides. (katana-hozon.jpg)

   Photo: dealer in Japan.