Title: Kinsei no katchūThin but very nice catalog with 34 beautiful armors and kabuto, most of them not seen in other publications.
Title: Gekkan kiku tōken katchū ko bijutsu zenshū (and dai ni kan)Kind of a “multi yearbook” with the reprinting of the monthly magazine. Many armours and kabuto, tsuba, guns and even some western style armours. Fascinating.
Title: Ōmishima no hihō-ten - Setouchi no suigun o shinobuŌyamazumi Jinja contains the biggest collection of National Treasures armours. Over the years, they published several catalogs, this is an earlier version of such a catalog. Recent ones have better pictures.
Title: Mononofu no haresugata - Chikara yakudō biVery nice and rare catalog of an exhibition held in the art show room of Ginza Matsuya. In total 33 pieces mainly some beautiful kabuto.
Title: Katchū ten: Jōshū katchūshi no kabuto to tōmō yukari no katchūThin exhibition catalog with 23 pieces in color.
Title: Yoroi to kabuto ten - Momoyama - Edo jidai
Author: Nihon-shi Zoku Shiryōkan
Publisher: Nihon-shi Zoku Shiryōkan, 1972
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Black and white pictures
Other: 24 pages, 26 cm by 18 cm, softcover
Topics: Kabuto, Katchū, Menpō
ID: B0316
Old exhibition catalog. The pictures are rather small and black and white. 52 items.
Title: Kanagawa no katchū meihin ten
Author: Nihon katchū bugu kenyū hozon kai Kanagawa bunbu
Publisher: Nihon katchū bugu kenyū hozon kai Kanagawa bunbu, 1988
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Color Pictures
Other: 26 cm by 18 cm, softcover
Topics: Kabuto, Katchū, Menpō
ID: B0315
Very nice exhibition catalog from the (then) Kanagawa branch of the armor society, at the occasion of an exhibition related to the 27th annual meeting in 1988. 43 beautiful pieces are shown in color, many of them probably not in many other books or catalogs. Saotome, nanban, saiga, kawari etc…
Title: Kawari kabuto goju tōten
Author: Nihon Katchū Bugu Kenyū Hozon Kai
Publisher: Nihon Katchū Bugu Kenkyū Hozon Kai, 1977
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Black and white pictures
Other: 26 cm by 18 cm, softcover
Topics: Kabuto, Katchū, Menpō
ID: B0314
Nice exhibition catalog from 1977 with 50 kawari kabuto, four of them as part of a complete set. Several Saiga kabuto are included. Pictures are black and white and sometimes a bit too dark.
Title: Yamagataken bunkazai chōsa hōkokusho 15, Yamagataken no katchū
Author: Yamagataken Kyōiku Iinkai
Publisher: Yamagataken Kyōiku Iinkai, 1968
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Black and white pictures
Other: 59+11 pages, 26 cm by 18 cm, softcover
Topics: Kabuto, Katchū, Menpō
ID: B0313
Old and rather rare booklet from 1968 related to armours from Yamagata prefecture. Some armours are famous, and although the pictures are small, it is always interesting to see how they looked and were set up almost 50 years ago…
Title: Étude de Meikō Zukan - Armuriers du Japon XVIe - XVIIIe siècle
Author: Robert Burawoy
Publisher: Institut des Hautes Etudes Japonaises - Collège de France - Editions De Boccard, 2017
ISBN: 978-2-9132-1737-9
Language: French with an abstract in English and Japanese
Illustrations: Color pictures and black and white pictures
Other: 296 pages, 27 cm by 20.5 cm, softcover
Topics: Kabuto, Katchū, Menpō, Sōmen
ID: B1308
This new and updated edition of the Étude de Meikō Zukan – Armuriers du Japon XVIe – XVIIIe siècle is the PhD dissertation that Mr. Burawoy wrote based on the Meikō Zukan (including sequels and addendum), an important armor book written by Matsumiya Kanzan in 1746. A first edition of Mr. Burawoy’s book was published in 2008, after which Mr. Burawoy kept his research up to date by hunting for new reference documents, different copies of the Meikō Zukan for comparison, and the whereabouts of the real pieces described in the book.
This overly illustrated book is, without a doubt, the most up to date research work on Japanese armor today. The book is in French, but Mr. Burawoy mentions that, when time permits, he will post an english translation (by instalments) on his website (www.robertburawoy.fr). On the same website you can also find errata and addenda of the recent books by Mr. Burawoy.
