Kantei

Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 5 October 2026 and the credits of all the images.

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Sources

Museums and official databases

  1. ColBase, Tokyo National Museum: kantō no tachi of 1915 (F-36)
  2. ColBase, Tokyo National Museum: tachi of 1897 (F-338)
  3. ColBase, Tokyo National Museum: tantō of 1891 (F-307)
  4. ColBase, Tokyo National Museum: tantō of 1891 (F-344)
  5. ColBase, Tokyo National Museum: tachi blade of 1913 (F-16489)
  6. ColBase, Tokyo National Museum: koshigatana blade (F-16490)
  7. ColBase, Tokyo National Museum: model of a daitō (F-20151)
  8. ColBase, Tokyo National Museum: tantō 因州住包則 (Inshū-jū Kanenori) (F-20069)
  9. ColBase, Kyoto National Museum: naginata by Norinaga continued by Kanenori (E甲282)
  10. Bunka Isan Online: tantō 因州住包則 (Inshū-jū Kanenori)
  11. Bunka Isan Online: kantō no tachi of 1915
  12. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: tantō by Miyamoto Kanenori, 1868 (2026.137a–e)

Dictionaries and encyclopaedias

  1. 宮本包則 (Miyamoto Kanenori), Japanese Wikipedia
  2. 日本刀 (Nihontō), Japanese Wikipedia
  3. 刀工 (Tōkō), Japanese Wikipedia
  4. Kotobank: 宮本包則 (Miyamoto Kanenori), 20世紀日本人名事典 (Nijusseiki Nihon jinmei jiten)

Consulted, without a link

  1. Saitama Prefectural Museum of History and Folklore: tantō by Kanenori (SPM2009-0031)

Image credits

  1. The tang of the kantō no tachi of 1915 (Taishō 4), with the signature 帝室技芸員前能登守菅原包則八十六翁作 (Teishitsu gigeiin saki no Noto no Kami Sugawara Kanenori hachijūroku-ō saku). Tokyo National Museum (tachi-1915-nakago.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, via ColBase, ColBase terms of use.
  2. The point of the kantō no tachi of 1915. Tokyo National Museum (tachi-1915-punta.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, via ColBase, ColBase terms of use.
  3. Tachi signed 菅原包則謹作之 (Sugawara Kanenori kinsaku kore), of 1897 (Meiji 30), with a replica ceremonial mount. Tokyo National Museum (tachi-1897.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, via ColBase, ColBase terms of use.
  4. The other side of the mount of the 1897 tachi. Tokyo National Museum (tachi-1897-b.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, via ColBase, ColBase terms of use.
  5. Tantō signed 因州住包則 (Inshū-jū Kanenori), in its mount. Tokyo National Museum (tanto-inshu.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, via ColBase, ColBase terms of use.
  6. Model (雛形, hinagata) of a gilt-bronze daitō, with the inscription 大神宮以余鉄作之 包則 (Daijingū yotetsu o motte kore o tsukuru, Kanenori), “made with the iron left over from the grand shrine”. Tokyo National Museum (daito-hinagata.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, via ColBase, ColBase terms of use.
  7. The guard of the same model, with four chrysanthemums. Tokyo National Museum (daito-hinagata-tsuba.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, via ColBase, ColBase terms of use.
  8. Naginata signed 大和尻懸住則長作 (Yamato Shikkake-jū Norinaga saku), of the Nanbokuchō, with the addition 宮本能登守包則継之 (Miyamoto Noto no Kami Kanenori kore o tsugu): Kanenori restored it. Kyoto National Museum (naginata-norinaga.jpg)

    Kyoto National Museum, via ColBase, ColBase terms of use.