Title: Katchū (Nihon no bijutsu No. 24)Author: Motoharu Ozaki Publisher: Shibundo Publishing, 1968
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Color and black and white pictures
Other: 110 pages, 23 cm by 18.5 cm, softcover
Topics: Kabuto,
Katchū,
Paintings ID: B0371
Fabulous armor issue from this acclaimed series on Japanese arts. Many, many pictures, mostly black and white and with a heavy bias towards the older armors.
Title: Genshoku nihon no bijutsu katchū to tōken (21)
Author: Kanzan Satō, Motoharu Ozaki
Publisher: Shōgakkan, 1993 (1970)
ISBN: 4-09-663125-6
Language: Japanese with some English
Illustrations: Many color and black and white pictures
Other: 250 pages, 35.5 cm by 26.5 cm, hardcover
Topics: Kabuto, Katchū, Menpō, Nihontō, Tōsōgu
ID: B0018
This is part 21 of a 30 volume book series. In a later edition, the series was extended to 32, and this volume became nr. 25. Content is identical as far as I can tell.
Beautiful color pictures, mostly from old armour and swords.
Celebrating the beauty of Japanese samurai armour