Title: Antiquités du Japon Art du SamouraiNice sales catalog from Frantz Fray (Espace 4).
Title: The Evolution of the Samurai HelmetThin booklet from Louis and Kei Kaneda Chappelear (who would later become ‘famous’ for the ‘Japanese Armor for the Samurai’ book – see B0413) for a presentation they gave at the Japanese Sword Club of Northern California in January 1978.
Title: Honcho Buki MeikanPartial (?) reproduction of the Honcho Buki Meikan from 1854, a handbook of Military terms. With English translations.
Title: The Influence of Japanese Wars on Weapons and ArmourVery small booklet published by W. M. Hawley that focussed on some main wars to illustrate (briefly) how armour has changed over time.
Title: Famous Warriors of 16th Century JapanSmall booklet published by W. M. Hawley with some reproductions from Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi’s Ehon Toyotomi Kunkoki. The booklet focusses on some samurai portraits from this famous series, but Hawley published a bigger book with about 600 reproductions.
Title: 850 Japanese Armour TermsW. M. Hawley was one of these pioneers who opened up a lot of info to the West. He is famous for his “Japanese Swordsmiths”, but he also made many other (and smaller) books. This is one of them. 850 Japanese Armour Terms is one of several volumes that contain specific terms for a certain subset of Japanese arms, illustrated by mainly line drawings. The only regret is that the kanji are still all hand written. Otherwise fantastic resource.
Title: 600 Japanese Sword Fittings TermsW. M. Hawley was one of these pioneers who opened up a lot of info to the West. He is famous for his “Japanese Swordsmiths”, but he also made many other (and smaller) books. This is one of them. 600 Japanese Sword Fittings Terms is one of several volumes that contain specific terms for a certain subset of Japanese arms, illustrated by mainly line drawings. The only regret is that the kanji are still all hand written. Otherwise fantastic resource.
Title: 150 Japanese Polearm TermsW. M. Hawley was one of these pioneers who opened up a lot of info to the West. He is famous for his “Japanese Swordsmiths”, but he also made many other (and smaller) books. This is one of them. 150 Japanese Polearm Terms is one of several volumes that contain specific terms for a certain subset of Japanese arms, illustrated by mainly line drawings. The only regret is that the kanji are still all hand written. Otherwise fantastic resource.
Title: The age of the samuraiNice book that was published during the process of creating the exhibition “Samurai – A Thousand Years of Cults in Culture” in Malmö in 2004. Although the book is more focussed on the Samurai culture as a whole, it is interesting from an armour perspective as some armours from the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Kunstkamera (St. Petersburg) are in here.
Title: A short history of Japanese armourThis is a classic. Since then off course more elaborated works have been published, but you just must admire the pioneering work of these early researchers like H.R. Robinson.
