Title: Japanese Sword Guards Masterpieces from the Sasano Collection Part OneAnother important book from Mr. Sasano on tsuba. He passed away before he could finish a second part…
Title: Early Japanese Sword Guards Sukashi TsubaAn important book from Mr. Sasano, who went against the stream in the tsuba world with his theories. This is a rework and English version of a book written in 1970, Tsuba no Bi.
Title: Jizai OkimonoThis is the best book about Jizai Okimono, beautifully illustrated with numerous top pieces from several collections.
Title: Armures japonaises dans la collection Jean Saporta - Japanese armor from the Jean Saporta collectionBeautiful book from Jean-Christophe Charbonnier about the magnificent collection of Jean Saporta. The collection has since then been sold, but Mr. Saporta has been very active in gathering a new collection, so there is hope for another book!
Title: Casques, masques et armures des seigneurs de l'ancien JaponBeautiful book from Jean-Christophe Charbonnier with a wide selection of top quality kabuto, menpō, sōmen, katchū from private collections. Excellent explanation about the various schools, beautiful photography.
Title: Armures du Japon II : 100 pièces sélectionnées dans la collection du Musée Stibbert de FlorenceBeautiful book from Robert Burawoy with 100 selected pieces from the Famous Stibbert Collection in Florence. Excellent photography, with explanation in French and English. This is the best book about the Stibbert Collection.
Title: Katchū bugu no kenkyū : kinsei no kabuto o chūshin toshite (Studies on Arms and Armour - With a Focus on Modern Helmets)During his many years as a member of the Nihon Katchū Bugu Kenkyū Hozon Kai, Mr. Orikasa wrote several highly interesting articles about Japanese armour for the magazine of the society. What makes the articles of Mr. Orikasa so interesting is the fact that he starts from thorough research, and not from pure guess work.
In this book (limited to 200), Mr. Orikasa assembled his best articles with, where applicable, some extra comments. As it is probably the first time that these articles will be available for people who are not a member of the armour society, it is a very valuable document.
Title: Sōma no kabutoFantastic book by the Fukushima group of the Japanese Armour Society. Only 4 armours, but a huge amount of kabuto that were at that time in collections in Fukushima. Rare.
Title: Saotome ha kabuto shashin shūThis is a very rare book on Saotome kabuto by the main researcher on this superb school of Japanese samurai helmets, Teruo Orikasa. 26 years later, we made together a follow up book with “Helmets of the Soatome school” (B0182). One of the very few books that has multiple angle pictures of a kabuto as it should be. A must. I believe that the printing was limited to 200.
Title: Kinki no meikōVery 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.
