Kind of a “multi yearbook” with the reprinting of the monthly magazine. Many armours and kabuto, tsuba, guns and even some western style armours. Fascinating.
Title: Ōmishima no hihō-ten: Setouchi no suigun o shinobu Author: Ōyamazumi Jinja Publisher: Ōyamazumi Jinja, 1970 Language: Japanese Illustrations: Color and black and white pictures Other: 26 cm by 18 cm, softcover Topics:Bugu, Documents, Kabuto, Katchū, Mirrors, Tōsōgu ID: B0319
Ōyamazumi Jinja contains the biggest collection of National Treasures armours. Over the years, they published several catalogs, this is an earlier version of such a catalog. Recent ones have better pictures.
This is one of the several books that Stephen R. Turnbull has written about Samurai. This one is a very broad one, and in that sense gives a good overview. Only a few armors ate in the book, but many paintings etc.
Beautiful catalog that was published on the occasion of the exhibition Lords of the samurai – the legacy of a daimyo family, organized by the Asian Art Museum and the Eisei-Bunko Hosokawa Collection (Tokyo), in San Francisco, 2009. Besides the famous armors, also many other beautiful items from the collection are in the catalog.
Superb catalog for what must have been an amazing exhibition in the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Includes more then 20 mostly famous and superb armours.
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: Gekkan kiku tōken katchū ko bijutsu zenshū (+dai ni kan)
Title: Ōmishima no hihō-ten: Setouchi no suigun o shinobu
Title: The Book of the Samurai - The Warrior Class of Japan
Title: Lords of the samurai : the legacy of a daimyo family
Title: Art of the Samurai - Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156-1868
Title: Japan The Shaping of Daimyo Culture 1185-1868
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: Katō kiyomasa to honmyōji no shihōten