Title: Samurai An Illustrated History
Author: Mitsuo Kure
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing, 2002
ISBN: 0-8048-3287-0
Language: English
Illustrations: Color Pictures
Other: 192 pages, 31 cm by 24 cm, hardcover
Topics: History, Kabuto, Katchū, Menpō, Paintings, Samurai
ID: B0302

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Nice general samurai overview book with several armors, re-enactors and drawings. The picture on the cover is rather famous as it illustrates that by the time that photography became available, many ‘samurai’ did not know anymore how to put on an armor properly. The sode are reversed…