Thin exhibition catalog concerning the Echizen Yamagate family – Takeda Shingen relation. Only one armour and one kabuto, mainly interesting for some nice scrolls.
Title: Shumi no katchū Author: Yoshihiko Sasama Publisher: Yūzankaku, 1967 Language: Japanese Illustrations: Black and white drawings, few Black and white pictures Other: 286 pages, 26.5 cm by 19.5 cm, hardcover Topics:Kabuto, Katchū, Menpō ID: B0267
One of the many books of Yoshihiko Sasama, richly illustrated with line drawings (and a few B&W pictures).
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).
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.
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.
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,…