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, and their photos carry the generic credit.

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Sources

Researchers

  1. Markus Sesko, “The great flood of the Yoshii river” (2013)

Encyclopaedias

  1. 宮本包則 (Miyamoto Kanenori), Japanese Wikipedia

Official databases and museums

  1. Wikimedia Commons: the long sword of the LACMA (AC1999.186), with the data from its record

Videos

  1. 永野照男 (Nagano Teruo): katana by Sukenaga of 1841, forged before the altar of the Tenma Tenjin-gū

Image credits

  1. The long sword of the LACMA (lacma-daisho.jpg)

    Los Angeles County Museum of Art, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
  2. A katana by Sukenaga, from both sides (katana-dos-caras.jpg)

    Photo: dealer in Japan.