Title: Tōsō sōranAuthor: Kazutarō Torigoe Publisher: Kazutarō Torigoe, 1978
ISBN: None
Language: Japanese and English
Illustrations: Black and white pictures
Other: 308 pages, 30 cm by 22 cm, hardcover
Topics: Tōsōgu ID: B0041
Another important book from Mr. Torigoe, with a lot of pictures of tsuba. Limited to 1200.
Title: Tsuba kanshōkiAuthor: Kazutarō Torigoe Publisher: Nihon Bunkyō Shuppan, 1965
ISBN: None
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Black and white pictures
Other: 362 pages, 31 cm by 22 cm, hardcover
Topics: Tōsōgu ID: B0040
Another beautiful and important book from Mr. Torigoe, with a lot of pictures of tsuba. This is the original edition from 1965. Limited to 500.
Title: Tsuba kanshōkiAuthor: Kazutarō Torigoe Publisher: Token Shunju Press, 1975
ISBN: None
Language: Japanese with some English
Illustrations: Black and white pictures
Other: 389 pages, 30.5 cm, 21.5 cm, hardcover
Topics: Tōsōgu ID: B0039
Another beautiful and important book from Mr. Torigoe, with a lot of pictures of tsuba. With English description. This a newer edition then the one from 1965. Limited to 1000.
Title: Tsuba geijutsu kō sono shiron to geijutsuteki kōsatsuAuthor: Kazutarō Torigoe Publisher: Nihon Bunkyō Shuppan, 1960
ISBN: None
Language: Japanese with some English
Illustrations: Black and white pictures, drawings
Other: 144, 111 pages, 29.5 cm by 22 cm, hardcover
Topics: Tōsōgu ID: B0038
An important tsuba book by Mr. Torigoe, one of the main Tsuba scholars of the previous century and teacher of Robert E. Haynes. Mr. Haynes wrote in 1963 ‘Tsuba An Aesthetic Study’, based on this work.
One book contains the pictures, the other one the text.
Celebrating the beauty of Japanese samurai armour