Kantei

Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026 and the credits for all the images. Some descriptions were checked against sources that are neither cited nor linked.

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Sources

Official records and museums

  1. Bunka Isan Online: 刀 無銘（左弘行） (katana mumei, Sa Hiroyuki), Tsuchiura City Museum
  2. Bunka Isan Online: tantō 筑州住行弘 (Chikushū jū Yukihiro), of 1350, Tsuchiura City Museum
  3. Bunka Isan Online: katana “Kagebōshi” (影法師, Kagebōshi), Tsuchiura City Museum

NBTHK

  1. NBTHK, text of the Jūyō Tōken designation of the 62nd session (2016): katana mumei, Sa Hiroyuki

    No online edition.
  2. NBTHK, Tōken Bijutsu no. 734 (March 2018), English translation: tachi “Den Samonji” and the Sa school

Studies

  1. Markus Sesko, “KANTEI 1: Sugata 5” (the shape of the mid-Nanbokuchō)
  2. Markus Sesko, list of swordsmiths in the NBTHK monthly exhibitions (1998–2024)
  3. Osaru, 西海道 (Saikaidō): the Sa school and its members

Dictionaries and encyclopaedias

  1. Samonji, the master of the Sa school, Japanese Wikipedia

Image credits

  1. Unsigned katana attributed to Sa Hiroyuki, Tsuchiura City Museum (katana-tsuchiura.jpg)

    Tsuchiura City Museum and Agency for Cultural Affairs, via Bunka Isan Online; © Agency for Cultural Affairs.