Book Review: Tokugawa gosanke ten by Kagawa-ken Rekishi Hakubutsukan

Book Review: Tokugawa gosanke ten by Kagawa-ken Rekishi HakubutsukanTitle: Tokugawa gosanke ten : kaikan kinen tokubetsuten
Author: Kagawa-ken Rekishi Hakubutsukan
Publisher: Kagawa-ken Rekishi Hakubutsukan, 2000
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Color Pictures and black and white pictures
Other: 219 pages, 30 cm by 22 cm, softcover
Topics: Bagu, Bugu, Documents, Inrō, Kabuto, Menpō, Netsuke, Nihontō, Paintings, Tōsōgu
ID: B0274

Nice exhibition catalog with a wide range of items related to Tokugawa. Several armours.

Book Review: Echizen yamagatake to takeda shingen by Fukui Shiritsu Kyōdo Rekishi Hakubutsukan

Book Review: Echizen yamagatake to takeda shingen by Fukui Shiritsu Kyōdo Rekishi HakubutsukanTitle: Echizen yamagatake to takeda shingen
Author: Fukui Shiritsu Kyodo Rekishi Hakubutsukan
Publisher: Fukui Shiritsu Kyodo Rekishi Hakubutsukan, 2007
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Color Pictures
Other: 29 pages, 30 cm by 21 cm, softcover
Topics: Bugu, Documents, Kabuto, Katchū, Menpō, Paintings
ID: B0273

Thin exhibition catalog concerning the Echizen Yamagate family – Takeda Shingen relation. Only one armour and one kabuto, mainly interesting for some nice scrolls.

Book Review: Shingen Kenshin, soshite densetsu no gunshi by Yamanashi Kenritsu Hakubutsukan, Niigata Kenritsu Rekishi Hakubutsukan, Ōsaka Rekishi Hakubutsukan

Book Review: Shingen Kenshin, soshite densetsu no gunshi by Yamanashi Kenritsu Hakubutsukan, Niigata Kenritsu Rekishi Hakubutsukan, Ōsaka Rekishi HakubutsukanTitle: Shingen Kenshin, soshite densetsu no gunshi - Taiga dorama tokubetsuten fūrin kazan
Author: Niigata Kenritsu Rekishi Hakubutsukan, Ōsaka Rekishi Hakubutsukan, Yamanashi Kenritsu Hakubutsukan
Publisher: NHK Puromōshon, 2007
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Color Pictures
Other: 239 pages, 30 cm by 23 cm, softcover
Topics: Bugu, Documents, Kabuto, Katchū, Menpō, Nihontō, Paintings
ID: B0271

Very nice book related to Shingen Kenshin, published at the occasion of the taiga drama.

Book Review: Yanagawa no bijutsu 2 by Yanagawashi Shi Henshū Iinkai

Book Review: Yanagawa no bijutsu 2 by Yanagawashi Shi Henshū IinkaiTitle: Yanagawa no bijutsu 2 (Yanagawa Bunka Shiryō Shūsei, dai 3 shū 2)
Author: Yanagawashi Shi Henshū Iinkai
Publisher: Yanagawashi Shi Henshū Iinkai, 2007
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Black and white pictures few color pictures
Other: 464+42 pages, 30 cm by 23 cm, softcover
Topics: Abumi, Ceramics, Documents, Kabuto, Katchū, Kura, Menpō, Nihontō, Paintings, Tōsōgu
ID: B0270

Nice catalog about the many art objects from Yanagawa. Some very interesting armour related items are also displayed, among many other items.

Book Review: Nihon no buki bugu by Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan

Book Review: Nihon no buki bugu by Tōkyō Kokuritsu HakubutsukanTitle: Nihon no buki bugu
Author: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan
Publisher: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 1976
Language: Japanese with some English
Illustrations: Black and white pictures, some color pictures
Other: 26 cm by 18.5 cm, softcover
Topics: Abumi, Bugu, Documents, Kabuto, Katchū, Kura, Menpō, Nihontō, Paintings, Tōsōgu
ID: B0263

Exhibition catalog for what must have been an amazing armour exhibition in the Tokyo National Museum in 1976. A bigger book was published in 1977 (see B0019).

Book Review: Arms and armour of old Japan by M. B. Huish (Ed.), C. Holme (Ed.)

Book Review: Arms and armour of old Japan by M. B. Huish (Ed.), C. Holme (Ed.)Title: Arms and armour of old Japan
Author: C. Holme, M. B. Huish
Publisher: The Japan Society London, 1905
Language: English
Illustrations: Black and white pictures
Other: 147+40 pages, 27.5 cm by 20.5 cm, hardcover
Topics: Abumi, Bugu, Kabuto, Katchū, Menpō, Nihontō, Teppō, Tōsōgu
ID: B0261

Old exhibition catalog with a nice selection on armours, swords, tsuba, spears, arrow etc… Interesting to see what was already more then 100 years ago in European collections. Limited to 250.

Book review: Kokuhō jūyō bunkazai taizen 5, Kōgeihin 1 by Bunkachō, Mainichi Shinbunsha

Book review: Kokuhō jūyō bunkazai taizen 5, Kōgeihin 1 by Bunkachō, Mainichi ShinbunshaTitle: Kokuhō jūyō bunkazai taizen 5, Kōgeihin 1
Author: Bunkachō, Mainichi Shinbunsha
Publisher: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1998
ISBN: 4-620-80325-1
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Black and white pictures
Other: 571+24 pages, 31 cm by 23 cm, hardcover
Topics: Abumi, Bagu, Bugu, Documents, Kabuto, Katchū, Kura, Menpō, Mirrors
ID: B0258

This is one volume of a magnificent 13 volume set (12 normal volumes + 1 extra volume) that contains the National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties of Japan at the moment of the publication. This volumes contains, among many other things, armours. One could only wish for a full color one and one with bigger pictures.

Book Review: Hideyoshi to Momoyama bunka – Ōsakajō Tenshukaku meihinten by Nakaba Kitagawa, Ōsakajō Tenshukaku, Gifu-shi Rekishi Hakubutsukan

Book Review: Hideyoshi to Momoyama bunka – Ōsakajō Tenshukaku meihinten by Nakaba Kitagawa, Ōsakajō Tenshukaku, Gifu-shi Rekishi HakubutsukanTitle: Hideyoshi to Momoyama bunka - Ōsakajō Tenshukaku meihinten
Author: Gifu-shi Rekishi Hakubutsukan, Nakaba Kitagawa, Ōsakajō Tenshukaku
Publisher: Mainichi Shinbun Ōsaka Honsha Bunka Jigyōbu, 1996
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Color Pictures
Other: 243+37 pages, 28 cm by 22.5 cm, softcover
Topics: Bugu, Documents, Kabuto, Katchū, Menpō, Nihontō, Paintings, Teppō
ID: B0256

Beautiful exhibition catalog with pieces from the Osaka Castle Museum regarding Hideyoshi and the culture of the Momoyama period. Very nice combination of armour, documents, screens,…

 

Book Review: Osaka no jin to echizenzei by Fukui Shiritsu Kyodo Rekishi Hakubutsukan

Book Review: Osaka no jin to echizenzei by Fukui Shiritsu Kyodo Rekishi HakubutsukanTitle: Osaka no jin to echizenzei
Author: Fukui Shiritsu Kyodo Rekishi Hakubutsukan
Publisher: Fukui Shiritsu Kyodo Rekishi Hakubutsukan, 2012
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Color Pictures
Other: 68 pages, 30 cm by 21 cm, softcover
Topics: Bugu, Documents, Kabuto, Katchū, Menpō, Nihontō, Statues, Teppō
ID: B0254

A nice exhibition catalog about Osaka castle and the power of Echizen. Besides several nice armours, also several castle maps and battle scrolls.