Title: Nihon no katchūAuthor: Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan Publisher: Kyōto kokuritsu hakubutsukan, 1987
Language: Japanese and some English
Illustrations: Color and black and white pictures
Other: 198 pages, 26 cm by 18 cm, softcover
Topics: Bugu,
Kabuto,
Katchū,
Menpō,
Sōmen ID: B0389
Superb catalog of the 1987 armor exhibition at the Kyoto National Museum. This is the cheaper version of the amazing B0024 catalog.
Title: Nihon no katchū
Author: Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan
Publisher: Kyōto kokuritsu hakubutsukan, 1989
ISBN: None
Language: Japanese with some English
Illustrations: Numerous color pictures, black and white pictures
Other: 254 pages, 37 cm by 22.5 cm, hardcover
Topics: Kabuto, Katchū, Menpō, Sōmen
ID: B0024
This famous large format book is based on a Japanese armour exhibition that was held in the Kyōto National Museum in 1987. The large photos are excellent.
There is a much smaller (and much cheaper) catalog of the same exhibition also.
Celebrating the beauty of Japanese samurai armour