Title: Art of the Samurai - Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156-1868Author: Kazutoshi Harada,
Morihiro Ogawa Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-58839-345-6
Language: English
Illustrations: Color and black and white pictures
Other: 344 pages, 31 cm by 23.5 cm, hardcover
Topics: Abumi,
Bagu,
Bugu,
Documents,
Kabuto,
Katchū,
Kura,
Menpō,
Nihontō,
Paintings,
Tōsōgu ID: B0297
Superb catalog for what was an amazing exhibition in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Many famous and superb armours, koshirae and swords.
Title: Nippon-tō: Art swords of Japan The Walter A. Compton CollectionAuthor: Junji Homma,
Kanichi Sato,
Morihiro Ogawa,
Walter A. Compton Publisher: Japan House Gallery,
Japan Society Inc., 1976
ISBN: 0-913304-05-0
Language: English
Illustrations: Some color pictures, many black and white pictures and illustrations
Other: 134 pages, 37 cm by 26.5 cm, Hardcover
Topics: Nihontō,
Tōsōgu ID: B0184
Beautiful book published at the occasion of an exhibition held in 1976 around the marvelous Walter A. Compton Collection, probably the best collection on Japanese swords ever outside of Japan (or even maybe including Japan). See also the Christie’s catalogs (B0208-B0210), and One hundred masterpieces from the collection of Dr. Walter A. Compton (B0020).
Celebrating the beauty of Japanese samurai armour