Famous works

The Maeda tantō

• The 短刀 銘行光 (tantō, mei Yukimitsu), from the Maeda house of Kaga, is in the Tokyo National Museum. It was designated in 1931 under the old law and has been a National Treasure since 20 March 1954.
• It is kept with a lacquered aikuchi koshirae with clouds in makie.

His two signed blades

• The NBTHK says that only two blades with his signature are known: one that Tokugawa Ieyasu gave to Takenokoshi Masanobu, of Imao, in Mino, and the one of the Maeda house, a National Treasure.
• The Tokyo National Museum says that, of his signed blades, the representative ones are the Maeda blade and the one of the Imperial Household Agency.
• Neither source says whether the blade Ieyasu gave away is the one of the Imperial Household.

The Fudō Yukimitsu

• The 不動行光 (Fudō Yukimitsu) is a tantō associated with Oda Nobunaga. The blade that bears that name today, privately owned, measures 25.5 cm, is engraved with Fudō Myōō and is signed 行光 (Yukimitsu).
• The 享保名物帳 (Kyōhō meibutsuchō) records only a “Fudō”, with no swordsmith’s name. According to the Japanese Wikipedia, that entry is not in the original and was added by Hon'ami Nagane in the late Edo; in 1901, Hon'ami Chōshiki told Imamura Chōga that that Fudō was by Sōshū Sadamune, and Fukunaga Suiken doubts that it is today’s Fudō Yukimitsu. Some accounts say it burned at Honnōji.
• No meibutsu of his is recorded with certainty.

The Sano Yukimitsu

According to Markus Sesko, the famous Kotegiri Masamune was attributed to Yukimitsu when it was owned by Sano Nobuyoshi, lord of the Sano domain, in Shimotsuke, and for that reason it was called 佐野行光 (Sano Yukimitsu).

Other blades and papers

Lists and treatises

Tōsaburō Yukimitsu does not appear in the Japanese Wikipedia’s list of wazamono; the Yukimitsu listed there is Fujishima Yukimitsu, a different swordsmith.