Kantei

Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026 and the credits for all the images.

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Sources

Official records and museums

  1. Agency for Cultural Affairs, database of designated properties: tachi 備前国友成造 (Bizen no kuni Tomonari zō), National Treasure
  2. Agency for Cultural Affairs: tachi 友成作 (Tomonari saku) of the Itsukushima shrine, National Treasure
  3. Agency for Cultural Affairs: koshigatana of the Itsukushima shrine, National Treasure
  4. Agency for Cultural Affairs: tachi 友成作 (Tomonari saku) of the Takaoka shrine
  5. Agency for Cultural Affairs: tachi 友成 (Tomonari) of the Kita-in temple
  6. Agency for Cultural Affairs: tachi 友成 (Tomonari) of the Seikadō Foundation
  7. Agency for Cultural Affairs: tachi gilded in red of the Kasuga shrine
  8. Agency for Cultural Affairs: tachi 伝友成 (den Tomonari) of the Mōri Museum
  9. Agency for Cultural Affairs: tachi 備前国友成 (Bizen no kuni Tomonari) of a private collection
  10. e-Museum (National Museums of Japan): tachi 備前国友成造 (Bizen no kuni Tomonari zō), F-20188
  11. Kyūshū National Museum, ColBase: tachi 友成 (Tomonari), F70

Studies

  1. NBTHK, Sword Journal no. 737 (June 2018), kantei of Tomonari
  2. NBTHK, Sword Journal no. 767 (December 2020), kantei of Tomonari

Dictionaries and encyclopaedias

  1. 友成 (Tomonari), Japanese Wikipedia
  2. 古備前派 (Ko-Bizen-ha), Japanese Wikipedia
  3. 鶯丸 (Uguisumaru), Japanese Wikipedia
  4. List of National Treasures of Japan (crafts: swords), English Wikipedia
  5. 友成 (Tomonari), Kotobank (Daijisen, Nihon kokugo daijiten and Nihon jinmei daijiten)

Image credits

  1. The National Treasure tachi in its display case at the Tokyo National Museum (tachi-vitrina.jpg)

    Kakidai, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
  2. The tachi 備前国友成造 (Bizen no kuni Tomonari zō): the blade on both sides, the nakago, a section of the hamon and the kissaki (tachi-omote.jpg, tachi-ura.jpg, nakago-omote.jpg, nakago-ura.jpg, hamon-omote.jpg, kissaki-omote.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, via e-Museum; ColBase terms of use, with acknowledgement of the source.
  3. Poster of the commentary from the exhibition of National Treasures (video-b1_o5iMnG-k.jpg)

    Still: 美術史チャンネル (Bijutsushi Channel), on YouTube.
  4. Poster of the shot of the tachi on display (video-AduY1Y16I6M.jpg)

    Still: 2012 Samurai, on YouTube.