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

Museums and heritage

  1. ColBase, Kyūshū National Museum: work by Shimosaka Tadachika, with the history of the Shimosaka school (F93)

Studies

  1. Japanese Sword Index, “Shinto Swordsmith Ranking” (Tomita Kiyama’s ranking)

Dictionaries and encyclopaedias

  1. 刀剣の業物一覧 (Tōken no wazamono ichiran), Japanese Wikipedia
  2. List of Wazamono, English Wikipedia
  3. 越前康継 (Echizen Yasutsugu), Japanese Wikipedia

Consulted, without a link

  1. Fukui City History Museum (福井市立郷土歴史博物館, Fukui Shiritsu Kyōdo Rekishi Hakubutsukan), exhibition sheet no. 165 (2024), on the Shimosaka school
  2. Fukuoka City Museum (福岡市博物館, Fukuoka-shi Hakubutsukan): wakizashi signed 近江守藤原継廣 (Ōmi no Kami Fujiwara Tsuguhiro), in its collection database (2007P01675)

Image credits

  1. The tang of the wakizashi of 1680 (wakizashi-1680-nakago.jpg)

    Photo: dealer in Japan.
  2. The tang of a katana by Tsuguhiro (katana-nakago.jpg)

    Photo: dealer in Japan.