Kantei

Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026, grouped by type, and the credits for all the images.

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Sources

Official databases and museums

  1. Bunka Isan Online: 太刀 銘三条（名物三日月宗近） (tachi mei Sanjō, meibutsu Mikazuki Munechika)
  2. Agency for Cultural Affairs, 国指定文化財等データベース (Kuni shitei bunkazai-tō dētabēsu): 太刀 銘三条 (tachi mei Sanjō), Nangū Taisha
  3. Bunka Isan Online: 太刀 銘吉家作 (tachi mei Yoshiie saku)
  4. ColBase: 太刀（名物 三日月宗近） (tachi, meibutsu Mikazuki Munechika), Tokyo National Museum
  5. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: netsuke of Munechika forging the blade Kogitsune

Encyclopaedias

  1. 三条宗近 (Sanjō Munechika), Japanese Wikipedia
  2. 三日月宗近 (Mikazuki Munechika), Japanese Wikipedia
  3. 天下五剣 (tenka goken), Japanese Wikipedia
  4. 小狐丸 (Kogitsune-maru), Japanese Wikipedia

Researchers

  1. Markus Sesko, “Kantei 4 – Yamashiro #1: Sanjō (三条) School 1”
  2. Markus Sesko, “The Kogitsune-maru”

Image credits

  1. The Mikazuki Munechika, six views (mikazuki-1.jpg to mikazuki-6.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, via ColBase. CC BY 4.0.
  2. The tang of the Mikazuki in 1938 (mikazuki-nakago-1938.jpg)

    Unknown author, in the catalogue 東京帝室博物館復興開館陳列目録 (Tōkyō Teishitsu Hakubutsukan fukkō kaikan chinretsu mokuroku), 1938. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
  3. Tachi signed 宗 (Mune), attributed to Munechika (tachi-mune-yushukan.jpg)

    遊就館 (Yūshūkan), in the catalogue 紀元二千六百年奉祝名宝日本刀展覧会出陳刀図譜 (Kigen nisenroppyakunen hōshuku meihō Nihontō tenrankai shutchintō zufu). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
  4. Ogata Gekkō, 稲荷山小鍛冶 (Inariyama Kokaji) (gekko-kokaji.jpg)

    Ogata Gekkō. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
  5. Netsuke of Munechika and the Kogitsune (netsuke-met.jpg)

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0.
  6. Poster of the video of the Mikazuki in the exhibition of National Treasures (video-JRz6UP3L4jU.jpg)

    Still: 美術史チャンネル (Bijutsushi Channel), on YouTube.
  7. Poster of the video on the history of the sword (video-OQpxKl5px5k.jpg)

    Still: 美術史チャンネル (Bijutsushi Channel), on YouTube.
  8. Poster of the video of the nō “Kokaji” (video-6hDX8KqbrmE.jpg)

    Still: No予習 (yoshū) Noh Life, on YouTube.
  9. Poster of the video of the visit to the Tokyo National Museum (video-zrRrbxhHzrY.jpg)

    Still: ノガミのちゃんねる (Nogami no channel), on YouTube.