Kantei

Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026, grouped by type, and the credits for all the images.

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Sources

Museums and heritage

  1. ColBase, Kyoto National Museum: tachi by Umetada Myōju, 1598 (E甲187)
  2. Kyoto National Museum, collection database: the tachi of 1598
  3. ColBase, Kyoto National Museum: katana from the holdings of Sakamoto Ryōma, M甲159 (M-kō 159)
  4. Kyoto National Museum, collection database: the katana from the Sakamoto Ryōma holdings
  5. ColBase: works with the name 埋忠明寿 (Umetada Myōju) in the National Museums
  6. Bunka Isan Online (文化遺産オンライン): the tachi of 1598, Important Cultural Property
  7. Bunka Isan Online: the tsuba with oak leaves, Important Cultural Property
  8. Internet Museum: the 2020-2021 “Umetada” exhibition
  9. Wikimedia Commons: tsuba by Umetada Myōju in the Walters Art Museum (51.408)

NBTHK

  1. Japanese Sword Museum, list of works of the “Umetada” exhibition (2020-2021), PDF

Studies

  1. Markus Sesko, “Masters of the Keichō Shintō”, excerpt (PDF)

Dictionaries and encyclopaedias

  1. Kotobank: 埋忠明寿 (Umetada Myōju): Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Sekai Daihyakka Jiten, Nipponica and Britannica
  2. 埋忠明寿 (Umetada Myōju), Japanese Wikipedia
  3. Umetada, English Wikipedia
  4. List of Wazamono, English Wikipedia

Image credits

  1. Tachi by Umetada Myōju of 1598. Kyoto National Museum (tachi-1598.jpg)

    ColBase, Kyoto National Museum (E甲187).
  2. The Fudō of the tachi of 1598 (tachi-1598-fudo.jpg)

    ColBase, Kyoto National Museum (E甲187).
  3. The dragon of the tachi of 1598 (tachi-1598-dragon.jpg)

    ColBase, Kyoto National Museum (E甲187).
  4. The signature of the tachi of 1598 (tachi-1598-mei.jpg)

    ColBase, Kyoto National Museum (E甲187).
  5. The date of the tachi of 1598 (tachi-1598-fecha.jpg)

    ColBase, Kyoto National Museum (E甲187).
  6. Katana from the Sakamoto Ryōma holdings. Kyoto National Museum (katana-sakamoto.jpg)

    ColBase, Kyoto National Museum, M甲159 (M-kō 159).
  7. Tsuba in the Walters Art Museum, obverse (tsuba-walters.jpg)

    Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
  8. Tsuba in the Walters Art Museum, reverse (tsuba-walters-reverso.jpg)

    Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
  9. The signature of the tsuba in the Walters Art Museum (tsuba-walters-firma.jpg)

    Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.