Superb catalog for what must have been an amazing exhibition in the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Includes more then 20 mostly famous and superb armours.
Very nice catalog published at the occasion of the ‘Art of Samurai: Selections from the Tokyo National Museum’ exhibition in The Bowers Museum in 2009. The exhibition featured 80 superb pieces, nicely illustrated in this catalog.
Title: Robert Winter Oriental Art - A Collection of Fine Japanese Armour and Related Pieces Author: Robert Winter Publisher: Robert Winter, 2008 Language: English Illustrations: Color Pictures Other: 31 cm by 22 cm, hardcover Topics:Abumi, Bagu, Kabuto, Katchū, Menpō, Paintings, Sōmen ID: B0294
Beautiful sales catalog of Robert Winter. Many high end armours, helmets, masks etc.
A new armour exhibition just started at the Yushukan (the Yasukuni Shrine Museum), and will run until December 10 2017. About 60 objects will be on display. At this moment, I’m not aware of the availability of a catalog.
This is volume 5 of the illustrated catalogs of the National Museum of Japanese History, completely dedicated to their weapons collection. 603 items are illustrated in color, ranging from muromachi haramaki do, katana till western style 19th century pistols. Most pieces are Japanese, but not all. As there are many pieces, the pictures are rather small, but still nice. Beautiful book.
A general book on samurai, mainly interesting for the many reproductions of scrolls, illustrations etc (often bit out of focus…). Some armours and kabuto.
An excellent Armour exhibition has opened in Itabashi, near Tokyo. The exhibition runs from January 21 till March 26, 2017 and shows the collection of Sekiya Hiromichi, who donated his collection to the museum when he passed away a few years ago. His collection consist of 98 items, many of them on display. The collector was unknown to most people in the armour world, and collected pieces that are in reach for ‘average’ collectors. Every month a gallery talk is scheduled by a member of the Japanese Armour Society: January 28th, February 18th and March 11th, at 13:30 (about 40 minutes). A catalog is also available.
Fabulous book with many selected pieces from the 8,000 pieces in the Osaka Castle collection. The book, published to celebrate the centennial of the incorporation of Osaka as a city, is as it should be: bi-lingual, full with beautiful pictures and nice explanations. Not only many armours, but also many other samurai items, battle screens (with details) etc.
Title: Japan The Shaping of Daimyo Culture 1185-1868
Title: Art of the Samurai - Selections from the Tokyo National Museum
Title: Robert Winter Oriental Art - A Collection of Fine Japanese Armour and Related Pieces
Title: Bugu korekushon = The weapons collection
Title: Samurai Warriors
Title: Hana - Ōsakajō Tenshukaku meihinshū = Hana - the Osaka Castle Museum collection
Title: Ōsaka natsu no jin kashii kassen