Kantei

Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026, grouped by type, and the credits for all the images. Only sources that do not sell swords are linked; the others served to check facts, but are neither cited nor linked, and their photos carry the generic credit.

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Sources

NBTHK

  1. NBTHK, Sword Journal no. 823 (August 2025): kantei no. 821, Wakasa no Kami Ujifusa, commentary by Ōi Gaku

Encyclopaedias

  1. 関物 (Seki-mono), 世界大百科事典 (Sekai daihyakka jiten, Heibonsha), on Kotobank
  2. 刀剣の業物一覧 (tōken no wazamono ichiran), Japanese Wikipedia
  3. 日本刀 (Nihontō), Japanese Wikipedia

Researchers

  1. Markus Sesko, “Kantei 3 – Hamon/Bōshi 1”
  2. Markus Sesko, “Kantei 1 – Sugata #7”
  3. Markus Sesko, “Cutting ability nicknames of swords”
  4. Japanese Sword Index, “Japanese Swordsmith Kanefusa”

Official databases and museums

  1. ColBase: search for 兼房 (Kanefusa) in the collections of the national museums

Consulted, without a link

  1. Gifu Prefectural Museum: 馬渕隆 (Mabuchi Takashi), 美濃の刀剣 (Mino no tōken), research report no. 1, 1980
  2. Gifu Prefectural Museum: catalogue 岐阜の赤羽刀総覧 (Gifu no Akabane-tō sōran), 2024
  3. Gifu Prefectural Museum: online guide to the exhibition 尾張徳川家ゆかりの美濃刀 (Owari Tokugawa-ke yukari no Mino-tō), 2026

Image credits

  1. The tang of a katana by Kanefusa (katana-nakago.jpg)

    Photo: dealer in Japan.
  2. The temper of the same katana (katana-hamon.jpg)

    Photo: dealer in Japan.
  3. The point of the same katana (katana-kissaki.jpg)

    Photo: dealer in Japan.
  4. Poster of the video of the forge in 2012 (video-jgG-kuAJCPQ.jpg)

    Still: John P, on YouTube.
  5. Poster of the first part of the visit (video-GwOGjyeyvgo.jpg)

    Still: 岩出かずや (Iwade Kazuya), on YouTube.
  6. Poster of the second part of the visit (video-kcc58Avq5lY.jpg)

    Still: 岩出かずや (Iwade Kazuya), on YouTube.