Kantei

Bibliography and credits

Sources

The sources consulted on 4 October 2026, by type, and the credit for each image.

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Official records and museums

  1. Designated cultural properties: 太刀〈銘吉房〉 (tachi, mei Yoshifusa), Okada-giri
  2. Designated cultural properties: 太刀〈銘吉房〉 (tachi, mei Yoshifusa), Fukuyama Museum of Art
  3. Designated cultural properties: 太刀〈銘吉房〉 (tachi, mei Yoshifusa), Shimazu house
  4. Designated cultural properties: 太刀〈銘吉房〉 (tachi, mei Yoshifusa), Hayashibara Museum
  5. Designated cultural properties: 太刀〈銘吉房〉 (tachi, mei Yoshifusa), Tokyo National Museum
  6. e-Museum: 太刀 銘吉房 (tachi, mei Yoshifusa), Okada-giri
  7. e-Museum: 太刀 銘吉房 (tachi, mei Yoshifusa), of the Takenokoshi
  8. ColBase: 太刀 銘 吉房 (tachi, mei Yoshifusa), 岡田切 (Okada-giri)
  9. ColBase: 太刀 銘 吉房 (tachi, mei Yoshifusa), of the Takenokoshi
  10. Bunka Isan Online: 太刀 銘 吉房 (tachi, mei Yoshifusa), 岡田切 (Okada-giri)
  11. Bunka Isan Online: 太刀 (tachi) by Yoshifusa, of the Takenokoshi

NBTHK

  1. NBTHK, Sword Journal no. 717 (October 2016), English translation: Meitō Kanshō

Encyclopaedias

  1. Japanese Wikipedia: 吉房 (Yoshifusa)
  2. Japanese Wikipedia: 福岡一文字 (Fukuoka Ichimonji)
  3. Japanese Wikipedia: 日本の刀工一覧 (Nihon no tōkō ichiran)
  4. Japanese Wikipedia: 刀剣の業物一覧 (Tōken no wazamono ichiran)
  5. English Wikipedia: Japanese sword

Image credits

  1. The Okada-giri, whole, on one side. (okadagiri-entero.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, on ColBase. Free, crediting ColBase.
  2. The Okada-giri: the point half, with the chōji temper. (okadagiri-punta.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, on ColBase. Free, crediting ColBase.
  3. The nakago of the Okada-giri, shortened, with its two holes. (okadagiri-nakago.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, on ColBase. Free, crediting ColBase.
  4. The Okada-giri on display at the Tokyo National Museum. (okadagiri-vitrina.jpg)

    SLIMHANNYA, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
  5. The Takenokoshi tachi, whole, on one side. (takenokoshi-entero.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, on ColBase. Free, crediting ColBase.
  6. The Takenokoshi tachi: the point half. (takenokoshi-punta.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, on ColBase. Free, crediting ColBase.
  7. The nakago of the Takenokoshi tachi. (takenokoshi-nakago.jpg)

    Tokyo National Museum, on ColBase. Free, crediting ColBase.
  8. The Yoshifusa tachi of the Shimazu house, in a plate of the National Treasures. (shimazu-lamina.jpg)

    Committee for the Protection of Cultural Properties, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
  9. A Yoshifusa tachi on display at the Tokyo National Museum; the photo does not say which of the two. (tachi-vitrina-museo.jpg)

    Daderot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
  10. Poster of the video “太刀 銘 吉房 (tachi, mei Yoshifusa), 岡田切 (Okada-giri), 国宝 (kokuhō)” (video-NYKKCLvveB0.jpg)

    Still: 2012 Samurai, on YouTube.
  11. Poster of the video “国宝 太刀 福岡一文字吉房 (kokuhō, tachi, Fukuoka Ichimonji Yoshifusa), 2019.5.23” (video-wdxRvVBKm2c.jpg)

    Still: yoshian yoshi, on YouTube.
  12. Poster of the video “【日本刀 (nihontō)】名刀14選 (meitō jūyon-sen)… 福山美術館 (Fukuyama Bijutsukan)” (video-uXb_9tRm4ps.jpg)

    Still: これさい (Koresai), on YouTube.