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Book Review: Nippon-tō – Art swords of Japan The Walter A. Compton Collection by Walter A. Compton, Junji Homma, Kanichi Sato, Morihiro Ogawa

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Book Review: Nippon-tō – Art swords of Japan The Walter A. Compton Collection by Walter A. Compton, Junji Homma, Kanichi Sato, Morihiro OgawaTitle: Nippon-tō: Art swords of Japan The Walter A. Compton Collection
Author: 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).