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, Kyoto National Museum: katana by Tanba no Kami Yoshimichi (E甲567)
  2. Bunka Isan Online (文化遺産オンライン): katana by Tanba no Kami Yoshimichi, Important Art Object
  3. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: daishō for a child with blades by Yoshimichi (2011.110.1, 2)

NBTHK

  1. NBTHK, Sword Journal no. 778 (November 2021), English translation
  2. NBTHK, Sword Journal no. 823 (August 2025), English translation

Studies

  1. Markus Sesko, “Masters of the Keichō Shintō”, excerpt (PDF)
  2. Markus Sesko, “Not your usual hataraki”
  3. Japanese Sword Index, “Yoshimichi” (with Hawley’s data)
  4. Japanese Sword Index, “Shinto Swordsmith Ranking” (Tomita Kiyama’s ranking)

Dictionaries and encyclopaedias

  1. Kotobank: 金道 (Kinmichi), Nihon Jinmei Daijiten+Plus
  2. Kotobank: 兼道 (Kanemichi), Nihon Jinmei Daijiten+Plus
  3. 近江守久道 (Ōmi no Kami Hisamichi), Japanese Wikipedia
  4. 刀剣の業物一覧 (Tōken no wazamono ichiran), Japanese Wikipedia
  5. List of Wazamono, English Wikipedia

Consulted, without a link

  1. 芳賀矢一 (Haga Yaichi), 日本人名辞典 (Nihon Jinmei Jiten), entries for 吉道 (Yoshimichi)
  2. Saitama Prefectural Museum of History and Folklore: two wakizashi by Tanba no Kami Yoshimichi, in its collection database
  3. Matsumae Castle Museum: sword by Tanba no Kami Yoshimichi from the former Matsumae house, in the Hokkaidō digital museum

Image credits

  1. Katana by Tanba no Kami Yoshimichi. Kyoto National Museum (katana-kioto.jpg)

    ColBase, Kyoto National Museum (E甲567).
  2. The tang of a wakizashi by Tanba no Kami Yoshimichi (wakizashi-nakago.jpg)

    Photo: dealer in Japan.