Book title assistance please

[Grey Doffin]

Hi guys,

If one of you would give me this book's title in Romanji I'd be most appreciative. I know it begins with Sunpu and I can decipher the individual Kanji but can't seem to make sense of it. The book will be for sale, if that matters to you.

Thanks, Grey

[cabowen]

駿府御分物刀剣と戦国武将画像

 

sunpu gobunbutsu token to sengoku busho gazo

[NihontoEurope]

Grey,

 

Images of Samurai Swords from the warring state period.

 

Best I can do...There is probably a more exact translation since this is a commercial book.

 

/Martin

[cabowen]

Grey,

 

Images of Samurai Swords from the warring state period.

 

Best I can do...There is probably a more exact translation since this is a commercial book.

 

/Martin

 

Maybe "Images of Swords and Warriors of Sunpu from the Warring States Period"....

[NihontoEurope]

I'm hitting the Like button.

 

/Martin

[Grey Doffin]

Thanks guys.

Grey

[Markus]

"Sunpu-owakemono" (駿府御分物) refers to the estate of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

 

That means the correct title is:

"Swords from the Estate of Ieyasu and Portraits of Sengoku Warlords"

[cabowen]

You never cease to amaze me!

[John A Stuart]

Markus, a little clarification please. In Surugu, Tokugawa Ieyasu was a hostage of the Imagawa clan as a boy. Tokugawa Yorinobu and Tadanaga became lords of Sunpu. Does the book only refer to Ieyasu alone or the Tokugawa clan as a whole? John

[cabowen]

My understand is that 駿府御分物 are items owned directly by Ieyasu and passed down after his death. For example, there is a catalog "家康の遺産 : 駿府御分物 Ieyasu no isan : Sunpu owakemono-"The Legacy of Tokugawa Ieyasu: Celebrating the 45th Anniversary of the First Shogun", published by the

Tokugawa Bijutuskan and the Tokugawa Hakubutsukan...

[Markus]

@John: Chris mentioned it. The term refers to the things Ieyasu owned at the time he

had retired and moved into Sunpu Castle.

[John A Stuart]

Thank you both. I just wondered how it was so specific. John

[k morita]

Many Meibutsu-swords were contained in The Legacy of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

So we can know,Iyeyasu's meibutsu-swords was transferred to which daimyo by the original list of "Sunpu Owakemono cho".