A very nice catalog from the Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art. Many Samurai items are display with nice (mostly) color pictures: Armours, swords, abumi, bows, guns etc.
An impressive catalog that focusses on Kaga, with armours, kabuto, abumi, tōsōgu,… Almost half is text that goes deeper in the history of these Kaga designs and artists.
Title: Kura to abumi Author: Motō Yoshimura Publisher: Unsōdō, 1983 ISBN: None Language: Japanese Illustrations: Color Pictures Other: 60+7 pages, 44 cm by 37 cm, hardcover Topics:Abumi, Bagu, Kura ID: B0036
A fantastic book about kura and abumi if you like eye candy. Very big and heavy.
Title: Armures du Japon (20 mai - 18 juin 1994) Author: Robert Burawoy Publisher: Galerie Robert Burawoy, 1994 ISBN: None Language: French Illustrations: Color and black and white pictures Other: 15 pages, 32 cm by 32 cm, soft cover Topics:Bagu, Kabuto, Katchū, Menpō, Sōmen, Tōsōgu ID: B0031
Thin but beautiful catalog from an exhibition in 1994 in the former Galerie Robert Burawoy. As usual with books from Mr. Burawoy, it has a special form factor, but the photography and items are very nice. You will recognize items that became quite famous later on (and expensive…).
This is a beautiful book published by the Tōkyō National Museum after the big 1976 exhibition.
Mostly old armours, swords, koshirae etc.
The sode on the cover are from my all time favorite dōmaru in the National Museum.
This is part 26 of a 30 volume book series on jūyō bunkazai pieces, about half of them armour. Many pictures, although mostly rather small. Focuses mainly on armours from Heian till Muromachi. Very interesting to see an overview of the jūyō bunkazai armour pieces.
Title: Nomaoi no rekishi o furikaeru
Title: Matsui bunko no buki to bugu
Title: Katchū abumi tōsōgu - Kagahan no waza to dezain
Title: Hare no kuni no meihō : Okayama no kokuhō jūyō bunkazai
Title: Kura to abumi
Title: Armures du Japon (20 mai - 18 juin 1994)
Title: Musashi mitake jinja hōbutsushū
Title: Hachisukake : awa nyūkoku 400 nen zusetsu
Title: Nihon no buki bugu (Tokubetsuten zuroku)
Title: Jūyō bunkazai kōgei hin III (26)
