Books on Amazon

[Civilis]

I have to order something small trough amazon.co.uk and I was wondering if you guys have any tips on relative cheap nihonto or tsuba books to combine shipping with. Doesn't have to be a wealth of knowledge inside, some eye candy books are welcome too.

[Marius]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Facts-Fundament ... o+nakahara

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Connoisseurs-Ja ... s=nagayama

 

if you don't have them already, that is :-)

[Civilis]

I have the Nagayama book among other "beginner" books like Yumoto. Does the Nakahara add something to those? Is there a tsuba equivelent for the Nagayama/Nakahara, I'm also interested in film/photo so a book with nice pictures would be oke too.

[Stephen]

if you looking for eye candy pix up old Christies or other auctions catalogs.

 

for sure this one

 

http://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Masterpie ... nese+sword

 

and the one Clive put out if memory serves has some nice fittings....was it Clives?

[Marius]

I have the Nagayama book among other "beginner" books like Yumoto. Does the Nakahara add something to those?

 

Yes, here is a brief review:

 

http://gomabashi.blogspot.com/2011/01/r ... s-and.html

 

I must say, that I return to this book frequently :-)

[Civilis]

@Mariusz, review sounds interesting, thank you

 

@Stephen, I have some Christie's catalogues and looking to buy some more, but most are offered second hand through amazon, but are not offered by amazon themselves, so shipping can not be combined.

[Alex A]

Katana: The samurai sword by Stephen Turnbull

Samurai 1550-1600 by Anthony Bryant

 

Both around £5 each from Amazon, basic little books, great for journeys. Around the same price are Samurai Woman, Sekigara 1600, The Mongol invasions of Japan 1274 and 1281, which ive not read.

[Travis Clarke]

Albert,

 

Here's a pretty decent book on fittings by Joe Earle. It is relatively inexpensive and full of great photography.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Lethal-Elegance-J ... 0878467750

 

http://www.amazon.com/Lethal-Elegance-S ... 0878466797

 

Hope this helps.

[Civilis]

@Travis

 

Looks pretty interesting. Does it consist of only the Boston MFA collection? Since I already have a lot of high resolution pics of those.

[Stephen]

T&C thats the book i was thinking of..lots of eye candy

[Travis Clarke]

Albert,

 

I'm not sure if all the photos consist of the Boston Collection or not. I don't have the book on hand. I'm sure you would be happy with it regardless. LOTS of eye candy...as Stephen said.

[Civilis]

Thank you all for the tips, I think I'm going to order a couple of the suggested books.

[raven2]

Lethal Elegance does consist of the Boston MFA collection only. But a nice book, nonetheless.

[SaintGermain]

Hello, whats a fair price for "The connoisseurs book Japanese swords"? I finally got a nice german sword book from Markus Sesko and i don't need it anymore. I'm not sure because the prices raised very high from what i can see?? The cheapest price on amazon is 249 USD

[Stephen]

150 is over priced if you ask me, imho you should keep it. you'll wish you had. if you have to sell, it should sell in a day in the for sale section at a fair price.