Book Review: Tokugawa bijutsukan gaidobukku – The Tokugawa Art Museum guide book by Tokugawa Bijutsukan

Book Review: Tokugawa bijutsukan gaidobukku – The Tokugawa Art Museum guide book by Tokugawa BijutsukanTitle: Tokugawa bijutsukan gaidobukku - The Tokugawa Art Museum guide book
Author: Tokugawa Bijutsukan
Publisher: Tokugawa Bijutsukan, 2010
Language: Japanese and some English
Illustrations: Color Pictures
Other: 119 pages, 25.5 cm by 19 cm, softcover
Topics: Abumi, Bagu, Bugu, Ceramics, Documents, Kabuto, Katchū, Kura, Menpō, Mirrors, Nihontō, Paintings, Teppō, Tōsōgu
ID: B0235

Nice overview guidebook from the Tokugawa Art Museum in Nagoya.

Book Review: Le Petit Hara – dictionnaire des artistes japonais de montures de sabre by Robert Harawoy (Robert Burawoy)

Book Review: Le Petit Hara – dictionnaire des artistes japonais de montures de sabre by Robert Harawoy (Robert Burawoy)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.

 

Book Review: Swords of the Samurai Japanese Arms and Armor from Northwest Collections by Patricia Grieve Watkinson et al.

Book Review: Swords of the Samurai Japanese Arms and Armor from Northwest Collections by Patricia Grieve Watkinson et al.Title: Swords of the Samurai Japanese Arms and Armor from Northwest Collections
Author: Barbara R. Coddington, Carole Ann Lowinger, Patricia Grieve Watkinson
Publisher: Museum of Art Washington State University, 1981
ISBN: 0-938620-00-2
Language: English
Illustrations: Black and white pictures
Other: 59 pages, 23 cm by 23 cm, softcover
Topics: Tōsōgu
ID: B0233

Simple catalog with several tsuba, few swords, few koshirae and one armour.

Book Review: 100 Selected Tsuba From European Public Collections by Robert Haynes and Robert Burawoy

Book Review: 100 Selected Tsuba From European Public Collections by Robert Haynes and Robert BurawoyTitle: 100 Selected Tsuba From European Public Collections
Author: Robert Burawoy, Robert Haynes
Publisher: Robert Haynes and Robert Burawoy, 1984
Language: French, English and German
Illustrations: Color and black and white pictures
Other: 64 pages, 30.5 cm by 21.5 cm, hardcover
Topics: Tōsōgu
ID: B0232

Very nice catalog on tsuba by Robert Haynes and Robert Burawoy at the occasion of the First European Symposium on The Arts of the Samurai in the German Sword Museum in Solingen.

Two editions exist. First the normal one, with some advertising in the back, and a second one limited to 300 with an extensive bibliography on sword fittings (almost 400 titles over nearly 300 years). This copy is with the bibliography.

Book Review: The Art of the Japanese Sword As Taught By the Experts by Kunihara Kawachi, Masao Manabe, Stephen Comee (translation)

Book Review: The Art of the Japanese Sword As Taught By the Experts by Kunihara Kawachi, Masao Manabe, Stephen Comee (translation)Title: The art of the Japanese sword as taught by the experts
Author: Kunihara Kawachi, Masao Manabe
Publisher: Ribun Publishing, 2004
ISBN: 4-89806-226-1 C0072
Language: English
Illustrations: Color and black and white pictures
Other: 156 pages, 21 cm by 15 cm, softcover
Topics: Nihontō
ID: B0228

Small but nice introduction to Japanese Swords.

 

Book Review: Gendai omamorigatana yūhinshū by Zennihon Tōshōkai

Book Review: Gendai omamorigatana yūhinshū by Zennihon TōshōkaiTitle: Gendai omamorigatana yūhinshū
Author: Zennihon Tōshōkai
Publisher: Terebi Setōchi Kurieito, 2005
ISBN: 4-9902316-1-9 C0070
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Color Pictures
Other: 80 pages, 21 cm by 30 cm, softcover
Topics: Nihontō, Tōsōgu
ID: B0227

A nice catalog about newly made tantō and their koshirae. These are used for special memorial gifts. Includes the name, and contact info of the smiths who made them.

 

Book Review: Masamune – nihontō no tensai to sono keifu tokubetsuten by Sano Bijutsukan, Toyama-ken Suiboku Bijutsukan, Tokugawa Bijutsukan and Nezu Bijutsukan

Book Review: Masamune – nihontō no tensai to sono keifu tokubetsuten by Sano Bijutsukan, Toyama-ken Suiboku Bijutsukan, Tokugawa Bijutsukan and Nezu BijutsukanTitle: Masamune : nihontō no tensai to sono keifu tokubetsuten
Author: Nezu Bijutsukan, Sano Bijutsukan, Tokugawa Bijutsukan, Toyama-ken Suiboku Bijutsukan
Publisher: Sano Bijutsukan, 2002
ISBN: 4-915857-54-9
Language: Japanese and some English
Illustrations: Color Pictures
Other: 175 pages, 29.5 cm by 22.5 cm, softcover
Topics: Nihontō, Tōsōgu
ID: B0226

Fabulous catalog on Masamune, the famous sword smith.

Book Review: Swords of the Samurai by Victor Harris and Nobuo Ogasawara

Book Review: Swords of the Samurai by Victor Harris and Nobuo OgasawaraTitle: Swords of the Samurai
Author: Nobuo Ogasawara, Victor Harris
Publisher: British Museum Publications, 1990
ISBN: 0-7141-1450-2
Language: English
Illustrations: Black and white and some color pictures
Other: 175 pages, 28 cm by 21.5 cm, softcover
Topics: Abumi, Documents, Kabuto, Katchū, Kura, Menpō, Nihontō, Paintings, Tōsōgu
ID: B0225

Very nice catalog that was published in 1990 at the occasion the the exhibition Swords of the Samurai then new Japanese Gallery at the British Museum. The catalog does not only contain a nice selection of swords, but also several famous armours, tsuba, koshirae etc.

Celebrating the beauty of Japanese samurai armour