Exhibition catalog for what must have been an amazing armour exhibition in the Tokyo National Museum in 1976. A bigger book was published in 1977 (see B0019).
Old exhibition catalog with a nice selection on armours, swords, tsuba, spears, arrow etc… Interesting to see what was already more then 100 years ago in European collections. Limited to 250.
Title: Katchū kozane kenkyū nōto Author: Motoo Yamagishi, Yorio Kanayama Publisher: Rēvukku, 2006 Language: Japanese Illustrations: Black and white pictures Other: 565 pages, 21.5 cm by 16 cm, hardcover Topics:Katchū ID: B0259
Nice small size but thick book is quite unique. It contains only research about armour kozane with many measurements, diagrams and pictures. A work of love. The writer is a member of the society, and the text was checked by famous armour researcher Motoo Yamagishi, who wrote himself the seminal works on old style Japanese armours.
This is one volume of a magnificent 13 volume set (12 normal volumes + 1 extra volume) that contains the National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties of Japan at the moment of the publication. This volumes contains, among many other things, armours. One could only wish for a full color one and one with bigger pictures.
Beautiful exhibition catalog with pieces from the Osaka Castle Museum regarding Hideyoshi and the culture of the Momoyama period. Very nice combination of armour, documents, screens,…
Nice exhibition catalog. Besides some interesting excavation material and documents, the armour treat is here some nice heian period yoroi details, not only from a very old (fallen apart) armour, but also from a recently made copy.
Old magazine with a nicely illustrated overview of 100 important players from the Sengoku period. Many such magazines exists (modern ones have better pictures of course).
Title: Nihon no buki bugu
Title: Arms and armour of old Japan
Title: Katchū kozane kenkyū nōto
Title: Kokuhō jūyō bunkazai taizen 5, Kōgeihin 1
Title: Hideyoshi to Momoyama bunka - Ōsakajō Tenshukaku meihinten
Title: Hatakeyama Shigetada - Yokohama futamatagawa ni chitta musashi bushi tokubetsuten
Title: Osaka no jin to echizenzei
Title: Tokugawa shitenno honda tadakatsu to shisontachi : Okazaki hanshu e no kiseki
Title: Sei to shi mononofu no bigaku
Title: Sengoku hyakunin
