Title: The Craft of the Japanese Sword Very interesting book that covers the complete creation of Japanese swords.
Title: Modern Japanese Swords and Swordsmiths - From 1968 to the presentBook on contemporary sword smiths, includes interviews.
Title: The Yasukuni Swords - Rare Weapons of Japan 1933 -1945Book that deals with the traditionally made swords in the build up to, and during the war.
Title: Yasukuni-to Tradition and Ideal Beauty
Author: Kenji Mishima, Tom Kishida
Publisher: Japanese Sword Society of the United States, 1998?
Language: English
Illustrations: None
Other: 145 pages, 28 cm by 22.5 cm, softcover
Topics: Nihontō
ID: B0229 This is the translation that goes with Yasukunitō : dentō to bi no gokuchi (B0217)
Title: Yasukunitō : dentō to bi no kyokuchi
Author: Tom Kishida
Publisher: Yūzankaku Shuppan, 1999
ISBN: 4-639-01551-8
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Black and white pictures
Other: 116 pages, 29.5 cm by 21 cm, softcover
Topics: Nihontō
ID: B0217
Book from Tom Kishida about the Yasukuni swords. A separate English translation was made by Kenji Mishima and published by the Japanese Sword Society of the United States (B0229). Tom Kishida published a book on the same topic “The Yasukuni Swords – Rare Weapons of Japan 1933-1945” in 2004 with Kodansha International (B0460).
