Katchū bugu kenkyū (kai) Magazine by Nihon katchū bugu kenkyū hozon kai

Katchū bugu kenkyū (kai) Magazine by Nihon katchū bugu kenkyū hozon kaiTitle: Katchū bugu kenkyū (kai) Magazine
Author: Nihon katchū bugu kenkyū honzon kai
Publisher: Nihon Katchū Bugu Kenkyū Hozon Kai, 1962-
Language: Japanese and some English
Illustrations: Color and black and white pictures
Other: 30 pages, 25.5 cm by 17 cm, softcover
Topics: Abumi, Bagu, Bugu, Documents, History, Kabuto, Katchū, Kura, Menpō, Samurai, Sōmen
ID: B0531

The quarterly magazine of the NKBKHK with research articles on Japanese Armor. Later magazines have color pictures and an English index and abstracts.

Rekishi no naka no teppō denrai : Tanegashima kara Boshin Sensō made = The introduction of guns in Japanese history : from Tanegashima to the Boshin War by Kokuritsu Rekishi Minzoku Hakubutsukan

Rekishi no naka no teppō denrai : Tanegashima kara Boshin Sensō made = The introduction of guns in Japanese history : from Tanegashima to the Boshin War by Kokuritsu Rekishi Minzoku HakubutsukanTitle: Rekishi no naka no teppō denrai : Tanegashima kara Boshin Sensō made = The introduction of guns in Japanese history : from Tanegashima to the Boshin War
Author: Kokuritsu Rekishi Minzoku Hakubutsukan
Publisher: Kokuritsu Rekishi Minzoku Hakubutsukan, 2006
ISBN: 4-86195-019-8
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Color pictures
Other: 199 pages, 30 cm by 21 cm, softcover
Topics: Documents, Katchū, Teppō
ID: B0520

Superb exhibition catalog about the guns used in Japan till the Boshin war.

Haramachi shishi dai 10 kan tokubetsu hen 3 nomaoi by Haramachishi Kyōiku Iinkai

Haramachi shishi dai 10 kan tokubetsu hen 3 nomaoi by Haramachishi Kyōiku IinkaiTitle: Haramachi shishi dai 10 kan tokubetsu hen 3 nomaoi
Author: Haramachishi Kyōiku Iinkai
Publisher: Haramachi shi, 2004
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Color and black and white pictures
Other: 596, 371 pages, 26.5 cm by 19 cm, hardcover
Topics: Abumi, Culture, Documents, History, Kamon, Katchū, Kura
ID: B0469

Haramachi shi, now part of Minami Sōma, is famous for the fabulous Sōma Nomaoi Samurai festival. This set covers the history of the city and it’s festival, with many pictures of armor, kura, abumi, scrolls. battle flags etc.

Bushi no yosooi – Clothes of samurai warriors by Nobuhiko Maruyama

Bushi no yosooi – Clothes of samurai warriors by Nobuhiko MaruyamaTitle: Bushi no yosooi - Clothes of samurai warriors
Publisher: Kȳoto Shoin, 1994
ISBN: 4-7636-7038-7 C0372
Language: Japanese and English
Illustrations: Color Pictures
Other: 95 pages, 21.5 cm by 15.5 cm, hardcover
Topics: Documents, Kabuto, Katchū, Paintings, Samurai
ID: B0346

Nice small book that also highlights some of the other clothes (like kimono, but also others) worn by the samurai elite.

Katchū – Japanese armor of the Kamakura period by Frances Seyssel-Hawley

Katchū – Japanese armor of the Kamakura period by Frances Seyssel-HawleyTitle: Katchū - Japanese armor of the Kamakura period
Author: Frances Seyssel-Hawley
Publisher: Hawley Publications, 1992
ISBN: 0-910704-46-5
Language: English
Illustrations: Black and white drawings.
Other: 34 pages, 22 cm by 14 cm, softcover
Topics: Documents, Kabuto, Katchū
ID: B0438

This small booklet contains some picture reproductions from the armor-volumes of the Shuko Jisshu (around 1700).

Uesugi Kenshin, Kagekatsu to kachū no busō by Masao Takemura

Uesugi Kenshin, Kagekatsu to kachū no busō by Masao TakemuraTitle: Uesugi Kenshin, Kagekatsu to kachū no busō
Author: Masao Takemura
Publisher: Miyaobi Shuppansha, 2010
ISBN: 978-4-86366-056-4
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Color Pictures
Other: 424 pages, 22 cm by 16 cm, softcover
Topics: Bagu, Bugu, Documents, Kabuto, Katchū, Kura, Menpō, Nihontō, Paintings, Tōsōgu
ID: B0437

Very detailed book from Masao Takemura (one of the directors of the NKBKHK) about the arms and armors of the Uesugi clan.