Kantei

Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026.

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Sources

Museums

  1. ColBase, Kyoto National Museum: wakizashi by Yasumitsu, 1409 (E甲452)
  2. ColBase, Tokyo National Museum: tachi by Yasumitsu (F-17057)
  3. ColBase, Tokyo National Museum: tachi by Yasumitsu (F-20011)
  4. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: daishō with the wakizashi by Yasumitsu (36.120.418)
  5. Wikimedia Commons: Yasumitsu of Bizen
  6. Wikimedia Commons: the wakizashi 1951.266.4966 of the Bern Historical Museum

Studies

  1. Markus Sesko, “A brief outline of the changes in workmanship of the later Bizen tradition”
  2. Markus Sesko, “Kantei 1: Sugata #5”
  3. Markus Sesko, “Kantei 1: Sugata #7”
  4. Markus Sesko, “Kantei 2: Jigane/Jihada #2”
  5. Markus Sesko, “Kantei 2: Jigane/Jihada #3”
  6. Markus Sesko, “Kantei 3: Hamon & Bōshi”
  7. Markus Sesko, blades of the NBTHK Shijō Kantei, 1998-2024 (PDF)
  8. Japanese Sword Index, “Judging sharpness”

Dictionaries and encyclopaedias

  1. Kotobank: 康光 (Yasumitsu), Nihon Jinmei Daijiten+Plus
  2. 修理亮盛光 (Shuri-no-suke Morimitsu), Japanese Wikipedia
  3. 長船派 (Osafune-ha), Japanese Wikipedia
  4. 刀剣の業物一覧 (Tōken no wazamono ichiran), Japanese Wikipedia
  5. List of Wazamono, English Wikipedia
  6. 九州・沖縄地方の重要文化財一覧 (Kyūshū-Okinawa chihō no jūyō bunkazai ichiran), Japanese Wikipedia
  7. 岡山県指定文化財一覧 (Okayama-ken shitei bunkazai ichiran), Japanese Wikipedia

Image credits

  1. Wakizashi by Yasumitsu in the Bern Historical Museum (inv. 1951.266.4966) (berna-wakizashi.jpg)

    Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 FR, via Wikimedia Commons.
  2. The point of the Bern wakizashi (berna-kissaki.jpg)

    Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 FR, via Wikimedia Commons.
  3. A stretch of the temper of the Bern wakizashi (berna-hamon-1.jpg)

    Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 FR, via Wikimedia Commons.
  4. Another stretch of the temper of the Bern wakizashi (berna-hamon-2.jpg)

    Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 FR, via Wikimedia Commons.
  5. The tang of the Bern wakizashi, with three mekugi holes (berna-nakago.jpg)

    Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 FR, via Wikimedia Commons.
  6. Wakizashi signed 備州長船康光 (Bishū Osafune Yasumitsu) and dated 1409 (Ōei 16). Kyoto National Museum (kioto-1409.jpg)

    ColBase, Kyoto National Museum (E甲452).
  7. Daishō in the Metropolitan Museum: the wakizashi, below, has a 15th-century blade by Yasumitsu, and the katana, one by Sukemitsu of Bizen of 1440 (met-daisho.jpg)

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
  8. Two blades displayed at the Ōishi shrine in Akō. The description of the photo on Commons gives them as Ōishi Kuranosuke’s daishō by Kiyomitsu and Yasumitsu; it has not been possible to confirm this (oishi-daisho.jpg)

    663highland, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.