Title: De strategie van de SamoeraiAuthor: Miyamoto Musashi,
Victor Harris Publisher: Karnak, 1984
ISBN: 90 6350 017 3
Language: Dutch
Illustrations: Black and white pictures
Other: 112 pages, 22 cm by 15 cm, softcover
Topics: History ID: B0443
Translation (in Dutch) of the famous strategy book of Miyamoto Musashi.
Title: Cutting Edge - Japanese Swords in the British MuseumAuthor: Victor Harris Publisher: Tuttle Publishing, 2005
ISBN: 0-8048-3680-9
Language: English
Illustrations: Color and black and white pictures te pictures
Other: 160 pages, 28.5 cm by 23 cm, hardcover
Topics: History,
Nihontō,
Paintings,
Tōsōgu ID: B0418
Very nice exhibition catalog from the Keeper Emeritus of the Japanese collections at the British Museum.
Title: Swords of the Samurai
Author: Nobuo Ogasawara, Victor Harris
Publisher: British Museum Publications, 1990
ISBN: 0-7141-1450-2
Language: English
Illustrations: Black and white and some color pictures
Other: 175 pages, 28 cm by 21.5 cm, softcover
Topics: Abumi, Documents, Kabuto, Katchū, Kura, Menpō, Nihontō, Paintings, Tōsōgu
ID: B0225
Very nice catalog that was published in 1990 at the occasion the the exhibition Swords of the Samurai then new Japanese Gallery at the British Museum. The catalog does not only contain a nice selection of swords, but also several famous armours, tsuba, koshirae etc.
Celebrating the beauty of Japanese samurai armour