Kantei

Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026, by type. The descriptions of his blades were used to check facts, but they are neither cited nor linked; their photos carry the generic credit.

On this page
  1. Sources

Sources

Competitions and official bodies

  1. Town of Sakaki (坂城町, Sakaki-machi): page 「宮入清宗」 (Miyairi Kiyomune), archive.org copy of 12 July 2015

References

  1. Tony Thomas, Japanese Sword Index: “The Miyairi School”
  2. Japanese Wikipedia: 宮入行平 (Miyairi Yukihira)

On this site

  1. The monograph on his son

    Miyairi Norihiro (宮入法廣)
  2. The monograph on his nephew

    Miyairi Kozaemon Yukihira (宮入小左衛門行平)

Image credits

  1. Tantō signed 源清宗 (Minamoto Kiyomune), on both sides. (kiyomune-hoja.jpg)

    Photo: dealer in Japan.
  2. The signature, 信濃國住宮入清平作 (Shinano no Kuni-jū Miyairi Kiyohira saku), and the date, 昭和五十二年二月吉日 (Shōwa gojūni-nen nigatsu kichijitsu): February 1977. (katana-1977-nakago.jpg)

    Photo: dealer in Japan.
  3. Katana of February 1977, whole. (katana-1977-hoja.jpg)

    Photo: dealer in Japan.
  4. The temper of the 1977 katana. (katana-1977-hamon.jpg)

    Photo: dealer in Japan.
  5. Kiyomune’s tantō with its wooden scabbard and its habaki. (kiyomune-conjunto.jpg)

    Photo: dealer in Japan.