Title: Nihon jōdai no katchūAuthor: Masao Suenaga Publisher: Sōgensha, 1944
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Black and white pictures
Other: 411+12+26+115 pages, 27.5 cm by 20.5 cm, hardcover
ID: B0262
The Nihon jōdai is a monumental book from 1944, completely dedicated to the old, pre-Heian, armours of Japan. It includes also study reproductions. Masao Suenaga is one of the handful armour researchers that people still talk about with a lot of respect. In 1981, the book was bundled with Nihon jōdai no buki (1941) in a fabulous bookset, see B0206.
Title: Nihon jōdai no katchū - Nihon jōdai no bukiAuthor: Masao Suenaga Publisher: Mokujisha, 1981
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Black and white picture, drawings, very few color pictures
Other: 586 + 115, 591 + 160 pages, 26.5 cm by 19.5 cm, hardcover
Topics: Bugu,
Kabuto,
Katchū,
Nihontō ID: B0206
This fabulous book set is actually a 1981 reprint of two books, one from 1941 and one from 1944 (B0262), completely dedicated to the old, pre-Heian, armours of Japan. It includes also study reproductions. Masao Suenaga is one of the handful armour researchers that people still talk about with a lot of respect. The book set was originally sold for 145,000 yen…
Celebrating the beauty of Japanese samurai armour