Very nice catalog published at the occasion of the ‘Art of Samurai: Selections from the Tokyo National Museum’ exhibition in The Bowers Museum in 2009. The exhibition featured 80 superb pieces, nicely illustrated in this catalog.
This is volume 5 of the illustrated catalogs of the National Museum of Japanese History, completely dedicated to their weapons collection. 603 items are illustrated in color, ranging from muromachi haramaki do, katana till western style 19th century pistols. Most pieces are Japanese, but not all. As there are many pieces, the pictures are rather small, but still nice. Beautiful book.
Fabulous book with many selected pieces from the 8,000 pieces in the Osaka Castle collection. The book, published to celebrate the centennial of the incorporation of Osaka as a city, is as it should be: bi-lingual, full with beautiful pictures and nice explanations. Not only many armours, but also many other samurai items, battle screens (with details) etc.
Title: Kuroda kanbē no miryoku : tenka o neratta harima no chishō kaikan nijisshūnen kinen tokubetsuten Author: Himeji Bungakukan Publisher: Himeji Bungakukan, 2011 Language: Japanese Illustrations: Color Pictures Other: 31 pages, 30 cm by 21 cm, softcover Topics:Bugu, Ceramics, Documents, Kabuto, Katchū, Tōsōgu ID: B0287
A small but nice exhibition catalog around Kuroda Kanbē. Few helmets, many documents.
Beautiful exhibition catalog celebrating the 450th anniversary of the first Shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Tokugawa Ieyasu. Some of his famous armours, but also many other items from his household, documents etc.
Title: Art of the Samurai - Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156-1868
Title: Art of the Samurai - Selections from the Tokyo National Museum
Title: Bugu korekushon = The weapons collection
Title: Hana - Ōsakajō Tenshukaku meihinshū = Hana - the Osaka Castle Museum collection
Title: Ōsaka natsu no jin kashii kassen
Title: Kuroda kanbē no miryoku : tenka o neratta harima no chishō kaikan nijisshūnen kinen tokubetsuten
Title: Kawanakajima no tatakai : ikusa kokoroe inori Matsushirojō seibi kansei kinen tokubetsuten
Title: Gohōjōshi to kawagoejō : Dai sanjikkai kikakuten
Title: Kami ni natta tonosama : nagai jinja no meihō to takatsukihan shiroato rekishikan nagai naokiyo kanren
Title: Ieyasu no isan - Sunpu owakemono