Sources

Sources

Agency for Cultural Affairs and museums

1. 文化遺産オンライン (Bunka Isan Online): katana 備州長船勝光 (Bishū Osafune Katsumitsu), 1505
2. ColBase, Kyūshū National Museum: the Katsumitsu katana (F89), with its photos and the text by Mochizuki Norifumi
3. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: wakizashi blade signed Katsumitsu (36.25.1681)
4. Kōchi Prefectural Sakamoto Ryōma Memorial Museum: its video on Ryōma’s wakizashi, on YouTube

NBTHK: Sword Journal

1. NBTHK Sword Journal no. 789 (October 2022): katana of Jirōzaemon-no-jō Katsumitsu of 1509 and the kurikara
2. NBTHK Sword Journal no. 782 (March 2022): the jūyō tōken wakizashi made with Munemitsu
3. NBTHK Sword Journal no. 717 (October 2016): the same wakizashi
4. NBTHK Sword Journal no. 700 (May 2015): Katsumitsu, Kiyomitsu and Sukesada
5. NBTHK Sword Journal no. 803 (December 2023): Sue-Bizen

Studies

1. Markus Sesko, “A brief outline of the changes in workmanship of the later Bizen tradition”
2. Markus Sesko, “Some thoughts on Sue-Bizen horimono”

Encyclopaedias

1. Kotobank: 勝光 (Katsumitsu)
2. Kotobank: 末備前 (Sue-Bizen)
3. Japanese Wikipedia: 長船派 (Osafune-ha)
4. Japanese Wikipedia: 刀剣の業物一覧 (Tōken no wazamono ichiran)

Image credits

1. The katana of 1505: the blade from both sides and the tang from both sides (katana-1505-hoja-a.jpg, katana-1505-hoja-b.jpg, katana-1505-nakago-a.jpg, katana-1505-nakago-b.jpg)

   Kyūshū National Museum, via ColBase. Licence: ColBase terms of use, which allow free use with the source cited.

2. A katana signed “Bishū Osafune Katsumitsu” at the Musée Saint-Remi (katana-exposicion-reims.jpg)

   Author: G. Garitan. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

3. Poster of the video of the Sakamoto Ryōma Memorial Museum (video-ANW4G6pWyUU.jpg)

   Still: 高知県立坂本龍馬記念館 (Kōchi Kenritsu Sakamoto Ryōma Kinenkan), on YouTube.