Title: Bijuaru Sengoku 1000-nin : Ōnin no Ran kara Ōsakajō Enjō made ransei no dorama o yomu Author: Tetsuo Owada Publisher: Sekai Bunkasha, 2009 ISBN: 978-4-418-09201-7 C1021 Language: Japanese Illustrations: Color and black and white pictures Other: 351 pages, 26 cm by 18.5 cm, softcover Topics:History, Katchū, Paintings ID: B0423
Book about 1000 historical figures from the Sengoku period. Illustrated, when possible, with remains of castles, paintings of the person and here and there an armor.
Title: Cutting Edge - Japanese Swords in the British Museum Author: Victor Harris Publisher: Tuttle Publishing, 2005 ISBN: 0-8048-3680-9 Language: English Illustrations: Color and black and white pictures te pictures Other: 160 pages, 28.5 cm by 23 cm, hardcover Topics:History, Nihontō, Paintings, Tōsōgu ID: B0418
Very nice exhibition catalog from the Keeper Emeritus of the Japanese collections at the British Museum.
One of the early great introductory texts in English, lavishly illustrated with (among others) pieces from the Stibbert Collection in Florence and the Museo Orientale in Venice.
Title: Nihon no katchū bugu jiten Author: Yoshihiko Sasama Publisher: Kashiwa Shobō, 2002 (1981) ISBN: 4-7601-0113-6 C3572 Language: Japanese Illustrations: Black and white pictures and line drawings, few color pictures Other: 519 pages, 26.5 cm by 19.5 cm, hardcover Topics:Abumi, Bagu, Bugu, Kabuto, Katchū, Kura, Menpō, Paintings, Sōmen, Teppō, Tōsōgu ID: B0410
Great armor encyclopedia with many pictures and drawings, covering all eras, types etc.
Title: Kaibara han shu Oda-ka denrai shiryō meihin-ten Publisher: Kaibara Rekishi Minzoku Shiryoukan, 1995 Language: Japanese Illustrations: Color and black and white pictures Other: 20 pages, 26 cm by 18 cm, softcover Topics:Abumi, Katchū, Kura, Nihontō, Paintings, Teppō ID: B0396
Thin exhibition catalog. Only three (but interesting) armors.
Title: Bijuaru Sengoku 1000-nin : Ōnin no Ran kara Ōsakajō Enjō made ransei no dorama o yomu
Title: Cutting Edge - Japanese Swords in the British Museum
Title: Japanese Arms & Armor
Title: Arms and Armour of the Samurai
Title: Nihon no katchū bugu jiten
Title: Heike monogatari emaki: Hayashibara bijutsukan shozō
Title: Koten sankō zuroku
Title: Samurai Armies 1550-1615
Title: Hinomisaki jinja hōbutsushū
Title: Kaibara han shu Oda-ka denrai shiryō meihin-ten