Title: Shumi no tsuba : 500 shiAuthor: Tessei Nakamura Publisher: Tankenkyūkai, 1965
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Black and white pictures
Other: 165 pages, 27 cm by 19 cm, hardcover
Topics: Tōsōgu ID: B0239
Tessei Nakamura explains in his foreword that he wanted to write this book as a follow up to his magistral “Tsuba shūsei” (1963), for people to make it easy to see many similar pieces close together, in an easier to read book.
Title: Tsuba shūseiAuthor: Tessei Nakamura Publisher: Tsuba Shūsei Kankōkai, 1963
ISBN: None
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Black and white pictures
Other: 522 pages, 37 cm by 26.5 cm, hardcover
Topics: Tōsōgu ID: B0037
One of the big classic tsuba books. An enormous amount of tsuba are illustrated. Very nice (and big). Limited to 1000.
Celebrating the beauty of Japanese samurai armour