Kantei

Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026.

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Sources

Designated properties

  1. Database of designated cultural properties: tantō 来国俊 (Rai Kunitoshi) of 1316, Atsuta shrine
  2. Database of designated cultural properties: tachi of his 75th year
  3. Database of designated cultural properties: tantō 愛染国俊 (Aizen Kunitoshi)
  4. Bunka Isan Online (文化遺産オンライン, Bunka Isan Online): tantō 来国俊 (Rai Kunitoshi) of the Kurokawa Institute
  5. Bunka Isan Online: tachi 来国俊 (Rai Kunitoshi) of the Nezu Museum

Museums

  1. ColBase, Tokyo National Museum: tachi by Kunitoshi, 1278 (F-20)
  2. ColBase, Tokyo National Museum: tachi by Kunitoshi of the Arima house (F-19849)
  3. ColBase, Tokyo National Museum: tachi by Rai Kunitoshi, 1321 (F-17050)
  4. ColBase, Kyoto National Museum: tantō by Rai Kunitoshi (E甲319)
  5. Kyoto National Museum, list of works of the exhibition “Kyō no katana” (京のかたな, Kyō no katana), 2018 (PDF)
  6. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: tantō by Rai Kunitoshi (1991.373)
  7. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: wakizashi by Rai Kunitoshi (36.120.422)
  8. Wikimedia Commons: Tachi Rai Kunitoshi

Studies

  1. Markus Sesko, “Kantei 4: Yamashiro #16, Rai school 2”
  2. Markus Sesko, “Kantei 4: Yamashiro #17, Rai school 3”
  3. Markus Sesko, “Kantei 4: Yamashiro #24, Ryōkai school 1”
  4. Markus Sesko, “Kantei 4: Yamashiro #20, Rai school 6”
  5. Markus Sesko, “Kantei 4: Yamashiro #24, Ryōkai school 1”

Dictionaries and encyclopaedias

  1. Kotobank: 来国俊 (Rai Kunitoshi): Nipponica, Digital Daijisen and Nihon Kokugo Daijiten
  2. 来派 (Rai-ha), Japanese Wikipedia
  3. 愛染国俊 (Aizen Kunitoshi), Japanese Wikipedia
  4. 蛍丸 (Hotaru-maru), Japanese Wikipedia

Image credits

  1. Tachi signed 国俊 (Kunitoshi), with two characters, and dated 1278 (Kōan 1). Tokyo National Museum (tachi-1278.jpg)

    ColBase, Tokyo National Museum (F-20).
  2. The tang of the 1278 tachi, with the signature 国俊 (Kunitoshi) (tachi-1278-mei.jpg)

    ColBase, Tokyo National Museum (F-20).
  3. The other side of the tang, with the date 弘安元年十二月日 (Kōan gannen jūnigatsu hi) (tachi-1278-fecha.jpg)

    ColBase, Tokyo National Museum (F-20).
  4. The point of the 1278 tachi (tachi-1278-punta.jpg)

    ColBase, Tokyo National Museum (F-20).
  5. Tantō signed 来国俊 (Rai Kunitoshi). Kyoto National Museum (kioto-tanto.jpg)

    ColBase, Kyoto National Museum (E甲319).
  6. Tachi signed 国俊 (Kunitoshi), of the Arima house, Important Cultural Property. Tokyo National Museum (tachi-arima.jpg)

    ColBase, Tokyo National Museum (F-19849).
  7. The tachi of the Arima house, from the other side (tachi-arima-2.jpg)

    ColBase, Tokyo National Museum (F-19849).
  8. Tachi by Rai Kunitoshi, from the end of the Kamakura, with a katana mounting from the beginning of Meiji (tachi-montura.jpg)

    SLIMHANNYA, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
  9. The same tachi, from the other side (tachi-montura-2.jpg)

    SLIMHANNYA, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
  10. Tantō by Rai Kunitoshi, dated by the museum to around 1315-1316. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (met-tanto.jpg)

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
  11. The Metropolitan Museum tantō, from the other side (met-tanto-2.jpg)

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.