Kantei

Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026, by type, with their link. What is in none of them, such as the kinship between the Kiyomitsu, is not given as certain.

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Sources

Agency for Cultural Affairs and museums

  1. 文化遺産オンライン (Bunka Isan Online): katana 備前国住長船清光作 (Bizen no kuni-jū Osafune Kiyomitsu saku), 1550
  2. ColBase, Kyūshū National Museum: the Kiyomitsu katana (F104), with its photos and the text by Mochizuki Norifumi
  3. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: tachi signed Kiyomitsu, with its mounting (36.25.1694)

NBTHK: Sword Journal

  1. NBTHK Sword Journal no. 786 (July 2022): katana of Gorōzaemon-no-jō Kiyomitsu of 1555 and the forge at Tatsuno
  2. NBTHK Sword Journal no. 803 (December 2023): Gorōzaemon-no-jō and Magoemon-no-jō
  3. NBTHK Sword Journal no. 721 (February 2017): the two Kiyomitsu in kantei
  4. NBTHK Sword Journal no. 700 (May 2015): Katsumitsu, Kiyomitsu and Sukesada
  5. NBTHK Sword Journal no. 789 (October 2022): the Sue-Bizen kurikara

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: 末備前 (Sue-Bizen)
  2. Kotobank: 清光 (Kiyomitsu)
  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 1550: the blade from both sides and the tang from both sides (katana-1550-hoja-a.jpg, katana-1550-hoja-b.jpg, katana-1550-nakago-a.jpg, katana-1550-nakago-b.jpg)

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