Category Archives: Book Review

Book Review: Tōsōgu no kigen by Masayuki Sasano

Book Review: Tōsōgu no kigen by Masayuki SasanoTitle: Tōsōgu no kigen
Author: Masayuki Sasano
Publisher: Nichibō Shuppansha, 1979
ISBN: None
Language: Japanese with some English
Illustrations: Black and white pictures
Other: 257 pages, 26.5 cm by 19 cm, hardcover
Topics: Tōsōgu
ID: B0044

Important work of Masayuki Sasano where he puts the origin of certain sword elements much earlier in the time than traditionally accepted. English text with the pieces is much more then normal. Limited to 2000.

Book Review: Tsuba kanshōki by Kazutarō Torigoe

Book Review: Tsuba kanshōki by Kazutarō TorigoeTitle: Tsuba kanshōki
Author: Kazutarō Torigoe
Publisher: Token Shunju Press, 1975
ISBN: None
Language: Japanese with some English
Illustrations: Black and white pictures
Other: 389 pages, 30.5 cm, 21.5 cm, hardcover
Topics: Tōsōgu
ID: B0039

Another beautiful and important book from Mr. Torigoe, with a lot of pictures of tsuba. With English description. This a newer edition then the one from 1965. Limited to 1000.

Book Review: Tsuba geijutsu kō sono shiron to geijutsuteki kōsatsu by Kazutarō Torigoe

Book Review: Tsuba geijutsu kō sono shiron to geijutsuteki kōsatsu by Kazutarō TorigoeTitle: Tsuba geijutsu kō sono shiron to geijutsuteki kōsatsu
Author: 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.