Sources

Sources

Museums and official databases

1. ColBase, Tokyo National Museum: katana signed 近江守源久道 (Ōmi no Kami Minamoto Hisamichi), with its mounting (F-19980)
2. Kyoto National Museum: 2025 exhibition on the shintō smiths of Yamashiro, of the Mishina and Horikawa schools

Dictionaries and encyclopaedias

1. 近江守久道 (Ōmi no Kami Hisamichi), Japanese Wikipedia
2. 日本刀 (nihontō), Japanese Wikipedia

Lists and treatises

1. 刀剣の業物一覧 (Tōken no wazamono ichiran), Japanese Wikipedia
2. List of Wazamono, English Wikipedia
3. Japanese Sword Index: Tomita Kiyama’s ranking of shintō smiths, translated by Jinsoo Kim
4. Japanese Sword Index: The Mishina School

Image credits

1. The mounting of the katana signed 近江守源久道 (Ōmi no Kami Minamoto Hisamichi), from both sides, and its tsuba (tnm-montura.jpg, tnm-montura-2.jpg, tnm-tsuba.jpg)

   ColBase, Tokyo National Museum (F-19980).