Title: Iwakuni hakubutsukan + Kashiwabara korekushiyonVery nice catalog about two tōsōgu collections.
A few weeks ago I posted a video review of one of the nice sales catalogs of Espace4 Gallery in Paris, France (www.espace4.com/en) and Mr. Frantz Fray was so kind to send me last week the complete set (so far) of four armour related catalogs. Thank you very much!
Three of these catalogs can be downloaded in pdf from this link on the gallery website: www.espace4.com/en/publishing/
Title: The Lundgren Collection of Japanese Metalwork, Tuesday, 18 November 1997This is the auction catalog for the famous Lundgren collection. Many tōsōgu are in the catalog, but also an amazing collection of jizai okimono. Limited to 200.
Title: The Baur Collection Geneva - Japanese Sword Fittings and Associated MetalworkFantastic catalog in a series about the fabulous Baur Collection. This one focusses on the Japanese sword fittings in the collection. Limited to 1600.
Title: Armures Japonaises à la XXVIe Biennale des AntiquairesVery nice sales catalog of Jean-Christophe Charbonnier, with armours, kabuto, menpō, sōmen etc. Several pieces have several pictures from different angles, as a good book should have.
Title: Armures Japonaises à la XXVe Biennale des AntiquairesVery nice sales catalog of Jean-Christophe Charbonnier, with armours, kabuto, menpō, bugu, bagu etc. Very beautiful photography as usual, with multiple shots of an armour, as it should be.
Title: Japanese Art & HandicraftThis is a 1976 reprint edition from the original 1915 book, also known as the Red Cross book, as the book was a catalogue of a loan exhibition, used to help the British Red Cross during the first World War. It was at the time a pioneering work, especially related to tōsōgu. One of these amazing works that were published with a lot of love in the early 20th century.
Title: Zusetsu Nihontō yōgo jitenA fantastic encyclopedic work related to terminology in the nihontō and tōsōgu world. An English supplement/translation exist (that I don’t have yet).
Title: Armures du Japon : 100 pièces sélectionnées dans la collection de la Fondation Kōzu de KyōtoVery beautiful book with 100 selected pieces from the Kōzu Foundation in Kyoto. The format of the book is long and actually allows large and impressive pictures of armour very well.
Title: Nippon-tō: Art swords of Japan The Walter A. Compton CollectionBeautiful book published at the occasion of an exhibition held in 1976 around the marvelous Walter A. Compton Collection, probably the best collection on Japanese swords ever outside of Japan (or even maybe including Japan). See also the Christie’s catalogs (B0208-B0210), and One hundred masterpieces from the collection of Dr. Walter A. Compton (B0020).
