Very nice and now rare publication from the Osaka regio branch (Kinki) of the The Armour society. Many pieces you will probably not find in any mainstream publication. Does also include several old akodanari kabuto and haramaki etc. Limited to 300.
Very nice exhibition catalog from 1984 with many pieces in European collections (private – mainly L.J. Anderson and Bernard Le Dauphin – and public) in 1984, and two top pieces from Yasukuni Jinja in Japan. The black and white pictures are often on the dark side, the color ones are much better. Also a French edition exist.
Very nice catalog written by Ian Bottomley at the occasion of the exhibition “Shogun: The Life of Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu”, held at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, in collaboration with Nikko Toshogu Shrine in 2005. Lavishly illustrated with Tokugawa related armours, documents, fold out screen reproductions, and many other items.
Nice book that was published during the process of creating the exhibition “Samurai – A Thousand Years of Cults in Culture” in Malmö in 2004. Although the book is more focussed on the Samurai culture as a whole, it is interesting from an armour perspective as some armours from the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Kunstkamera (St. Petersburg) are in here.
Very nice book that was published at the occasion of an exhibition in 2012 in the Frazier History Museum. Several very nice kabuto and armours (and many other samurai related items). Nice photography.
Title: Nihon katchūshi Vol 2. Sengoku jidai kara edo jidai Author: Ritta Nakanishi Publisher: Dai Nihon Kaiga, 2009 ISBN: 978-4-499-22956-2 C0031 Language: Japanese and English Illustrations: Color and black and white drawings Other: 96 pages, 25.5 by 26 cm, softcover Topics:Kabuto, Katchū, Menpō, Teppō ID: B0147
This two volume book series, completely drawn, is actually quite interesting and well done. It is bi-lingual and shows nicely the evolution of armour over time. This second volume focusses on the armours used from Sengoku jidai till Edo.
Bushido, the magazine that Robert Benson and Elton K. Ericson started to publish in 1979, lasted only 9 numbers but what an achievement it was. Each magazine contains interesting articles on armour, nihonto, tōsōgu and budō. I have only but admiration for what they accomplished in an age where it was quite hard (and expensive) to publish a partially color magazine.
Title: Meihin zuroku Tokugawa Bijutsukan
Title: Kinki no meikō
Title: Samurai
Title: Echoes of the Samurai
Title: Shogun The life of Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
Title: Honcho Buki Meikan
Title: The age of the samurai
Title: Samurai The Flowering of Japan
Title: Nihon katchūshi Vol 2. Sengoku jidai kara edo jidai
Title: Bushido International Journal of Japanese Arms (9 numbers)
