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 shinobu Author: Ōyamazumi Jinja Publisher: Ōyamazumi Jinja, 1970 Language: Japanese Illustrations: Color and black and white pictures Other: 26 cm by 18 cm, softcover Topics:Bugu, Documents, Kabuto, Katchū, Mirrors, Tōsōgu ID: B0319
Ōyamazumi 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: Katchū ten: Jōshū katchūshi no kabuto to tōmō yukari no katchū Author: Tōmō Rekishi Shiryōkan Publisher: Tōmō Rekishi Shiryōkan, 2000 Language: Japanese Illustrations: Color Pictures Other: 15 pages, 26 cm by 18 cm, softcover Topics:Kabuto, Katchū, Menpō ID: B0317
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.
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: Kōzukobunka, 1977 Language: Japanese Illustrations: Black and white pictures Other: 26 cm by 18 cm, softcover Topics:Kabuto, Katchū 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…