Tsuba Reference

[echoe]

can someone please recommend a couple of books for Tsuba for beginner?

 

thank you

tom

[Guido]

 

[echoe]

hmm. that went right over my head. 

am i being invited to snipe hunt?

[Grey Doffin]

Hi Tom,

There are so many good books on kodogu (including tsuba) it's hard to pick out just a couple.  The new 5 volume set:s Toogu Classroom, being published by the JSS/US and American & European branches of the NBTHK, is definitely a yes, especially given the reasonable cost.  Tsuba Kanshoki (1975 edition) has captions in English and is well worth the price.  The Art Appreciation of Japanese Sword Fittings is good for understanding the culture behind the art.  Robert Haynes' Gai So Shi approaches the subject from an unusual angle and I can recommend it, an interesting read.

Grey

[seattle1]

Hello Tom:

 For a general survey you cannot do better than Kazutaro Torigoye and Robert E. Haynes. Tsuba: An Aesthetic Study. The most recent version I know of "Edited and Published by Alan L. Harvie for the Northern California Japanese Sword Club, 1994-1997". If you search around you can surely find a copy and it won't be wildly expensive. It is about 275 pp.

 Arnold F.

[Grey Doffin]

I forgot that one.  $25 from Northern CA JSC:

http://www.ncjsc.org/ncjsc_publications.htm

Grey