Beautiful catalog of a magnificent exhibition held in the Tokyo National Museum in 2007 : “Legacy of the Tokugawa – The glories and treasures of the last samurai dynasty”. The exhibition was the first time that major possessions of the Tokugawa Shoguns, the three branch Tokugawa Daimyos (Owari, Kii and Mito) and several shrines and temples are put together on display.
The all color catalog contains many items, including several of the famous Tokugawa armours.
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: Shumi no tsuba : 500 shi Author: Tessei Nakamura Publisher: Tankenkyūkai, 1965 Language: Japanese Illustrations: Black and white pictures Other: 165 pages, 27 cm by 19 cm, hardcover Topics:Tōsōgu ID: B0239
Tessei Nakamura explains in his foreword that he wanted to write this book as a follow up to his magistral “Tsuba shūsei” (1963), for people to make it easy to see many similar pieces close together, in an easier to read book.
Title: Le Petit Hara dictionnaire des artistes japonais de montures de sabre Author: Robert Burawoy Publisher: Association Franco-Japonaise, 1991 Language: French Illustrations: None Other: 96 pages, 21.5 cm by 14.5 cm, softcover Topics:Tōsōgu ID: B0234
This small booklet is a compressed version of the “Die Meister der Japanischen Schwertzieraten” (1902 with corrected and enlarged edition in 1931) from Shinkichi Hara, an important work about the Japanese tōsōgu artists. The compilation from Robert Burawoy was a free gift that came with the 31th “bulletin” of the Association Franco Japonaise.
Title: Dai Tokugawa ten
Title: Yanagawa no bijutsu 2 (Yanagawa Bunka Shiryō Shūsei, dai 3 shū 2)
Title: Nihon no buki bugu
Title: Arms and armour of old Japan
Title: Shumi no tsuba : 500 shi
Title: Kanzōhin zuroku II
Title: Owari no tonosama monogatari : Owari tokugawake shodai yoshinao shūfū yonhyakunen
Title: Tokugawa bijutsukan gaidobukku - The Tokugawa Art Museum guide book
Title: Le Petit Hara dictionnaire des artistes japonais de montures de sabre
Title: Swords of the Samurai Japanese Arms and Armor from Northwest Collections