Title: Ōmishima no hihō-ten - Setouchi no suigun o shinobuAuthor: Ōyamazumi Jinja Publisher: Ōyamazumi Jinja, 1970
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Color and black and white pictures
Other: 26 cm by 18 cm, softcover
Topics: Bugu,
Documents,
Kabuto,
Katchū,
Mirrors ID: B0319
Ōyamazumi Jinja contains the biggest collection of National Treasures armours. Over the years, they published several catalogs, this is an earlier version of such a catalog. Recent ones have better pictures.
Title: Ōmishima no hihō-ten: Setouchi no suigun o shinobuAuthor: Ōyamazumi Jinja Publisher: Ōyamazumi Jinja, 1970
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Color and black and white pictures
Other: 26 cm by 18 cm, softcover
Topics: Bugu,
Documents,
Kabuto,
Katchū,
Mirrors,
Tōsōgu ID: B0319
Ōyamazumi Jinja contains the biggest collection of National Treasures armours. Over the years, they published several catalogs, this is an earlier version of such a catalog. Recent ones have better pictures.
Title: Kokuhō jūyō bunkazai taizen 5, Kōgeihin 1Author: Bunkachō,
Mainichi Shinbunsha Publisher: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1998
ISBN: 4-620-80325-1
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Black and white pictures
Other: 571+24 pages, 31 cm by 23 cm, hardcover
Topics: Abumi,
Bagu,
Bugu,
Documents,
Kabuto,
Katchū,
Kura,
Menpō,
Mirrors ID: B0258
This is one volume of a magnificent 13 volume set (12 normal volumes + 1 extra volume) that contains the National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties of Japan at the moment of the publication. This volumes contains, among many other things, armours. One could only wish for a full color one and one with bigger pictures.
Title: Tokugawa bijutsukan gaidobukku - The Tokugawa Art Museum guide bookAuthor: 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.
Title: Kasuga Taisha koshinpō hōmotsu zuroku (The Kasuga shrine art masterpieces and treasures)Author: Kasuga Taisha Shamusho Publisher: Kasuga Taisha Shamusho, 1991
ISBN: None
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Color and black and white pictures
Other: 30 cm by 21 cm, softcover
Topics: Documents,
Kabuto,
Katchū,
Mirrors,
Nihontō,
Paintings,
Tōsōgu ID: B0073
Although there are many very nice pieces in the catalog, the main attraction point are some great pictures of the fabulous armour that is on the cover, and some other old armours.
Title: Nihon no uma no ishōAuthor: Negishi Keiba Kinen Kōen Publisher: Baji Bunka Zaidan, 1994
ISBN: None
Language: Japanese with some English
Illustrations: Many color pictures
Other: 129 pages, 30.5 cm by 21.5 cm, hardcover
Topics: Ceramics,
Inrō,
Kabuto,
Katchū,
Kura,
Menpō,
Mirrors,
Netsuke,
Nihontō,
Tōsōgu ID: B0028
Interesting book as all the items (including armour, tsuba etc) are in someway related to horses.
Title: Jūyō bunkazai kōgei hin III (26)Author: Mainichi Shimbunsha Publisher: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1977
ISBN: 0370-611126-7904
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Some color pictures, many black and white pictures
Other: 120 pages, 35.5 cm by 26.5 cm, hardcover
Topics: Abumi,
Bagu,
Bugu,
Documents,
Kabuto,
Katchū,
Kura,
Menpō,
Mirrors,
Tōsōgu ID: B0017
This is part 26 of a 30 volume book series on jūyō bunkazai pieces, about half of them armour. Many pictures, although mostly rather small. Focuses mainly on armours from Heian till Muromachi. Very interesting to see an overview of the jūyō bunkazai armour pieces.
Title: Zaigai nihon no shihō (10) kōgeiAuthor: Tetsurō Kitamura Publisher: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1981
ISBN: 0370-611150-7904
Language: Japanese and some English
Illustrations: Many color and black and white pictures
Other: 141 pages, 35.5 cm by 26.5 cm, hardcover
Topics: Ceramics,
Kabuto,
Katchū,
Mirrors,
Nihontō,
Paintings,
Tōsōgu ID: B0016
This beautiful book is part of a 10 volume set that focuses on Japanese art in Western collections. This part does not contain much armour, but has some of the best pictures available of the famous ō-yoroi in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
Celebrating the beauty of Japanese samurai armour