Title: Tsuba kanshōkiAuthor: Kazutarō Torigoe Publisher: Nihon Bunkyō Shuppan, 1965
ISBN: None
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Black and white pictures
Other: 362 pages, 31 cm by 22 cm, hardcover
Topics: Tōsōgu ID: B0040
Another beautiful and important book from Mr. Torigoe, with a lot of pictures of tsuba. This is the original edition from 1965. Limited to 500.
Title: Tsuba geijutsu kō sono shiron to geijutsuteki kōsatsuAuthor: Kazutarō Torigoe Publisher: Nihon Bunkyō Shuppan, 1960
ISBN: None
Language: Japanese with some English
Illustrations: Black and white pictures, drawings
Other: 144, 111 pages, 29.5 cm by 22 cm, hardcover
Topics: Tōsōgu ID: B0038
An important tsuba book by Mr. Torigoe, one of the main Tsuba scholars of the previous century and teacher of Robert E. Haynes. Mr. Haynes wrote in 1963 ‘Tsuba An Aesthetic Study’, based on this work.
One book contains the pictures, the other one the text.
Celebrating the beauty of Japanese samurai armour