Title: Nihon no katchūSuperb catalog of the 1987 armor exhibition at the Kyoto National Museum. This is the cheaper version of the amazing B0024 catalog.
Title: Buke rekishi bijutten taiheiyō sensō-tenVery nice museum catalog from the now defunct Kyōto Arashiyama museum. Pictures are somewhat small and mostly overview pictures.
Title: Senjin bugu shiryō sankōkan kaikan kinen mokurokuLooks like the inventory of Mr. Nakamura when he opened his museum.
Title: Chū kinsei no buguNice old exhibition catalog with 6 (partial) armors, 15 kabuto, 2 menpo, 1 somen, few koshirae and some other small armor related materials.
Title: Nihon no yoroi kabuto ten : meishō, yushō no omokage o shinobuOld but very nice exhibition catalog with lot of armors and kabuto, also some swords and koshirae,
Title: Tetsu to urushi no geijutsu - Kyōto Arashiyama Bijutsukan zōhinshūGreat catalog of what must have been a superb museum: the Arashiyama Museum in Kyoto. Seems there are two versions of this catalog. One with the military collection also included, and one without (like this one).
Title: Kabuto to men yoroi ten
Author: Nihon katchū bugu kenyū kai
Publisher: Ōsaka-shi, 1966
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Black and white pictures
Other: 25 pages, 26 cm by 18 cm, softcover
Topics: Kabuto, Menpō, Sōmen
ID: B0323
Old but very nice exhibition catalog held in Osaka castle with in total 127 pieces: Kabuto and masks (about 39).
Title: Étude de Meikō Zukan - Armuriers du Japon XVIe - XVIIIe siècle
Author: Robert Burawoy
Publisher: Institut des Hautes Etudes Japonaises - Collège de France - Editions De Boccard, 2017
ISBN: 978-2-9132-1737-9
Language: French with an abstract in English and Japanese
Illustrations: Color pictures and black and white pictures
Other: 296 pages, 27 cm by 20.5 cm, softcover
Topics: Kabuto, Katchū, Menpō, Sōmen
ID: B1308
This new and updated edition of the Étude de Meikō Zukan – Armuriers du Japon XVIe – XVIIIe siècle is the PhD dissertation that Mr. Burawoy wrote based on the Meikō Zukan (including sequels and addendum), an important armor book written by Matsumiya Kanzan in 1746. A first edition of Mr. Burawoy’s book was published in 2008, after which Mr. Burawoy kept his research up to date by hunting for new reference documents, different copies of the Meikō Zukan for comparison, and the whereabouts of the real pieces described in the book.
This overly illustrated book is, without a doubt, the most up to date research work on Japanese armor today. The book is in French, but Mr. Burawoy mentions that, when time permits, he will post an english translation (by instalments) on his website (www.robertburawoy.fr). On the same website you can also find errata and addenda of the recent books by Mr. Burawoy.
Title: Kabuto to men yoroi ten
Author: Nihon katchū bugu kenyū kai
Publisher: Nihon katchū bugu kenyū kai, 1966
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Black and white pictures
Other: 25 pages, 26 cm by 18 cm, softcover
Topics: Katchū, Menpō, Sōmen
ID: B0323
Old but very nice exhibition catalog held in Osaka castle with in total 127 pieces: Kabuto and masks (about 39).
Title: Kanagawa no katchū meihin ten
Author: Nihon katchū bugu kenyū hozon kai Kanagawa bunbu
Publisher: Nihon katchū bugu kenyū hozon kai Kanagawa bunbu, 1988
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Color Pictures
Other: 26 cm by 18 cm, softcover
Topics: Kabuto, Katchū, Menpō, Sōmen
ID: B0315
Very nice exhibition catalog from the (then) Kanagawa branch of the armor society, at the occasion of an exhibition related to the 27th annual meeting in 1988. 43 beautiful pieces are shown in color, many of them probably not in many other books or catalogs. Saotome, nanban, saiga, kawari etc…
