Kantei

Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026, by type, and the credit for each image. All the photos are from Wikimedia Commons, with their author and their licence.

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Sources

Official database and museums

  1. Agency for Cultural Affairs, 国指定文化財等データベース (Kuni shitei bunkazai-tō dētabēsu): tachi 銘助真 (mei Sukezane), the Nikkō Sukezane
  2. e-Museum, Tokyo National Museum: tachi 銘助真 (mei Sukezane)
  3. e-Museum, Kyoto National Museum: unsigned tachi attributed to Sukezane

Encyclopaedias

  1. Japanese Wikipedia: 助真 (Sukezane)
  2. Japanese Wikipedia: 日光助真 (Nikkō Sukezane)
  3. Japanese Wikipedia: 福岡一文字派 (Fukuoka Ichimonji-ha)
  4. Kotobank: 助真 (Sukezane), from the Nihon jinmei daijiten+Plus and the Nihon kokugo daijiten

Researchers

  1. Markus Sesko, “The difficulties of classifying Kamakura blade shapes”, 2013
  2. Markus Sesko, “Kantei 1 – Sugata #5”, 2015
  3. Markus Sesko, “Kantei 3 – Hamon/Bōshi 1”, 2015
  4. Markus Sesko, “Thoughts on the Gokaden”, 2018

Images

  1. Wikimedia Commons: Sukezane

Image credits

  1. The Nikkō Sukezane, a National Treasure, of the Tōshōgū shrine in Nikkō. (nikko-sukezane.jpg)

    Author: Kakidai. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikimedia Commons.
  2. The Nikkō Sukezane in a display case. (nikko-sukezane-2.jpg)

    Author: Kakidai. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikimedia Commons.
  3. The Nikkō Sukezane, seen from the point. (nikko-sukezane-3.jpg)

    Author: Kakidai. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikimedia Commons.
  4. The Sukezane-goshirae, the black uchigatana mounting of the Nikkō Sukezane. (nikko-sukezane-koshirae.jpg)

    Author: Kakidai. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikimedia Commons.
  5. Plate of the Nikkō Sukezane: the tang and the whole blade. (nikko-sukezane-lamina.jpg)

    Author: 文化財協会 (Bunkazai Kyōkai). Licence: Public domain. Wikimedia Commons.
  6. Plate of the tachi signed Sukezane in the Tokyo National Museum. (tachi-tnm-lamina.jpg)

    Author: 文化財保護委員会 (Bunkazai Hogo Iinkai; 『国宝図録』, Kokuhō Zuroku, 1957). Licence: Public domain. Wikimedia Commons.
  7. The tachi of the Tokyo National Museum, omote side. (tachi-tnm-hoja.jpg)

    Author: 国立文化財機構 (Kokuritsu Bunkazai Kikō). Licence: CC BY 4.0. Wikimedia Commons.
  8. The tachi signed Sukezane, a National Treasure, in the Tokyo National Museum. (tachi-tnm.jpg)

    Author: Kakidai. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikimedia Commons.
  9. Poster of the video of the tachi of the Tokyo National Museum (2016) (video-cB4jiKVZ-lQ.jpg)

    Still: yoshian yoshi, on YouTube.
  10. Poster of the video of the tachi of the Tokyo National Museum (2019) (video-3_x2DqUxW_g.jpg)

    Still: 渡部亨 (probable reading: Watanabe Tōru), on YouTube.