Beschreibung:

A Group of Tsuba and Armor Books comprising: three ehon (Kinko kantei hiketsu , 2 vols., Taisho 6 reprints; Higo kinko roku , 1 vol., 1903); Tsuba taikan , Kawaguchi Noboru, Showa 10, original jacket; Nihon no buki bugu (Japanese Arms & Armor), Tokyo National Museum exhibition catalogue, 1977; Toshogu no kigen (Origins of Sword Fittings), 1979; Early Japanese Sword Guards , Sasano Masayuki, 1972; Tsuba - kodogu gadai jiten (Encyclopedia of Motifs of Tsuba and Kodogu), 2 vols., Numata Renji, 1967; Shonai kinko mei saku shu (Masterpieces of Shonai Metalwork), Sato Kanzan, 1966; Kinko jiten (Encyclopedia of Metalwork), 1970; The Goda Collection - Japanese Sword Fittings , Robert Hamilton Rucker, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1924; The Japanese Sword and Its Fittings (three copies), Japanese Sword Society of NY, Copper Union exhibition, 1966, together with a memeographed catalogue; plus several miscellanaous books on tsuba and armor. Approximately 39 items total.