Title: Samurai - Arms - Armor - Costume Author: Mitsuo Kure Publisher: Chartwell Books Inc., 2007 Language: English Illustrations: Color Pictures Other: 208 pages, 31 cm by 24 cm, hardcover Topics:History, Samurai ID: B0304
This book shows the history and development clothing, armor and weaponry of the samurai warrior class using reenactors. Almost 50 costumes are shown, including a line drawing with the different names. The armors uses are replicas.
Title: Bushido The Way of the Warrior Author: John Newman Publisher: Gallery Books, 1989 ISBN: 0-8317-1031-4 Language: English Illustrations: Color and black and white pictures Other: 192 pages, 31 cm by 24 cm, hardcover Topics:History, Kabuto, Katchū, Paintings, Samurai ID: B0303
General book on the samurai culture, from the early beginnings till the legacy after the second world war. Only a few famous armor are in the book.
Title: Samurai An Illustrated History Author: Mitsuo Kure Publisher: Tuttle Publishing, 2002 ISBN: 0-8048-3287-0 Language: English Illustrations: Color Pictures Other: 192 pages, 31 cm by 24 cm, hardcover Topics:History, Kabuto, Katchū, Menpō, Paintings, Samurai ID: B0302
Nice general samurai overview book with several armors, re-enactors and drawings. The picture on the cover is rather famous as it illustrates that by the time that photography became available, many ‘samurai’ did not know anymore how to put on an armor properly. The sode are reversed…
This is one of the several books that Stephen R. Turnbull has written about Samurai. This one is a very broad one, and in that sense gives a good overview. Only a few armors ate in the book, but many paintings etc.
This is the Dutch translation of The Way of the Samurai (1983) From Richard Storry with pictures of Werner Forman. Includes a limited number of armor pictures. More included in my library as nostalgia.
Beautiful catalog that was published on the occasion of the exhibition Lords of the samurai – the legacy of a daimyo family, organized by the Asian Art Museum and the Eisei-Bunko Hosokawa Collection (Tokyo), in San Francisco, 2009. Besides the famous armors, also many other beautiful items from the collection are in the catalog.
Fabulous exhibition collection of one of the best armor collections outside of Japan. This catalog is from 2011, and as the collection itself (traveling all over the world) is still expanding, it is likely that many pieces of the now enlarged collection are not yet in the catalog.
Topic: Suneate
Date: June 11th, 2017 – 15:00-17:00
Place: The Mansion of the Mizuinari shrine, close to Waseda Station
Entrance fee: 1,000 yen for members
Title: Samurai - The Weapons and Spirit of the Japanese Warrior
Title: The Shogun Age Exhibition: From the Tokugawa Art Museum, Japan
Title: Samurai - Arms - Armor - Costume
Title: Bushido The Way of the Warrior
Title: Samurai An Illustrated History
Title: The Book of the Samurai - The Warrior Class of Japan
Title: Samurai : krijgskunst als levensstijl
Title: Lords of the samurai : the legacy of a daimyo family
Title: Art of the Armor - Samurai Armor from the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection
