Kantei

Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026, grouped by type, and the credits for every image. Only sources that do not sell swords are linked; the others served to check facts but are neither cited nor linked.

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Sources

NBTHK

  1. NBTHK, Sword Journal no. 745 (February 2019): the katana of 1815
  2. NBTHK, Sword Journal no. 819 (April 2025): the katana of 1834
  3. NBTHK, Sword Journal no. 714 (July 2016): kantei
  4. NBTHK, Sword Journal no. 778 (November 2021): kantei
  5. NBTHK, Sword Journal no. 781 (February 2022)
  6. NBTHK, Sword Journal no. 782 (March 2022): Munetsugu, Masayoshi and Naotane
  7. NBTHK, labels of the Edo sansaku exhibition (2025): Naotane, first part
  8. NBTHK, labels of the Edo sansaku exhibition (2025): Naotane, second part
  9. NBTHK, catalogue of the Edo sansaku exhibition (2025)
  10. NBTHK, 70th Jūyō Tōken designation (2025)

Official databases and museums

  1. Bunka Isan Online: the katana of the Tokyo National Museum (F-20273)
  2. Bunka Isan Online: the wakizashi of the same commission
  3. ColBase, Tokyo National Museum: the katana by Naokatsu of 1835 (F-17298)
  4. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: katana 91.2.56
  5. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: wakizashi 91.2.84
  6. Okayama Prefecture: list of designated cultural properties
  7. Okayama Prefecture: record of the katana of 1837

Researchers

  1. Markus Sesko, “Naotane’s odd aging habit” (2022)
  2. Markus Sesko, “The Fujiwara ligature” (2016)
  3. Markus Sesko, “Egawa Tarōzaemon Hidetatsu” (2017)
  4. Markus Sesko, “Kuwana-uchi and Blades Made with Pure Fire” (2025)
  5. Markus Sesko, “Copies, homages and reinterpretations” (2015)
  6. Japanese Sword Index: Tomita Kiyama’s list of shintō swordsmiths (1933), translated by Jinsoo Kim

Encyclopaedias

  1. 大慶直胤 (Taikei Naotane), Japanese Wikipedia
  2. 大慶直胤 (Taikei Naotane), in Kotobank: gives the dates 1805-1858, which are those of Naokatsu

Consulted, without a link

  1. Markus Sesko, “Destructive Sword Testing” (2019)
  2. Matsusaka City: the katana, the naginata and the wakizashi by Naotane, cultural properties of Mie Prefecture

Image credits

  1. The katana of 1839, both sides (met-katana-1839-omote.jpg, met-katana-1839-ura.jpg)

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Public domain.
  2. The Met wakizashi: blade, carving, tang and point (met-wakizashi-hoja.jpg, met-wakizashi-horimono.jpg, met-wakizashi-nakago.jpg, met-wakizashi-kissaki.jpg)

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Public domain.
  3. The katana of the Tokyo National Museum (tnm-katana-hoja.jpg, tnm-katana-ryu.jpg, tnm-katana-kissaki.jpg, tnm-katana-nakago.jpg, tnm-katana-nakago-ura.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, via Bunka Isan Online.
  4. The daishō of 1836 (daisho-tenpo7.jpg)

    SLIMHANNYA, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
  5. Poster of the video of the Edo sansaku exhibition (video-t9j6BBnWt4s.jpg)

    Still: 永野照男 (Nagano Teruo), on YouTube.
  6. Poster of the video of the wakizashi exhibited in 2025 (video-3dW4nNKTUQk.jpg)

    Still: 永野照男 (Nagano Teruo), on YouTube.