Kantei

Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026. Almost all of his biography and his prizes come from Sakaki sources and from dealers that are neither cited nor linked, and are therefore marked as attribution; what is on record at the NBTHK and on Wikipedia is linked.

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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 新作名刀展 (Shinsaku Meitōten) of the 2017 fiscal year
  4. NBTHK, catalogue of the 現代刀職展 (Gendai Tōshokuten) 2021
  5. NBTHK, catalogue of the 現代刀職展 (Gendai Tōshokuten) 2022
  6. NBTHK, catalogue of the 現代刀職展 (Gendai Tōshokuten) 2024
  7. NBTHK, catalogue of the 現代刀職展 (Gendai Tōshokuten) 2025
  8. NBTHK, list of works of the Gendai Tōshokuten 2026, in English

Encyclopaedias

  1. 宮入行平 (Miyairi Yukihira), his father, Japanese Wikipedia

Press and interviews

  1. Waigaya Club: interview with Miyairi Kozaemon Yukihira

    Web magazine; no link.

Image credits

  1. Tachi of 2002, 81.3 cm: the blade, the point and the tang (comercio-tachi-2002.jpg)

    Photo: dealer in Japan.