Old Tsuba/Sword Books

[nihonto1001]

I wish I could read Japanese. I recently took these books in. They look old and interesting. If anyone wants to tell me what the titles are, I would appreciate it. I am going to sell them.

 

1. Large Tsuba Book with Sleeve:

 

2. Small Tsuba Book:

 

3. Small Nihonto Book: (I will study this one for a while, has many mei examples)

[Stephen]

bottom is Yoran, don't know full name

[ROKUJURO]

Jon,

 

maybe I am not of great help, but the first book says KODOGU in the middle of the title, and book 2 has KAWAGUCHI on the right side column.

[Curran]

First book is Vol 7 of the eight volume fittings encyclopedia by Wakayama.

http://www.japaneseswordbooksandtsuba.c ... s-wakayama

 

It took me years to score a copy of this eight volume set for less than $1000,

then luck would have it one of the estates I recently helped close out had a set of these.

So now I have a second set.

 

With some Japanese reading ability, (a) the 3 vol wakayama signature set, (b) Haynes Index, © one of Markus' translations, and (d) this set:

you have a base for most things kodogu that you will ever stumble upon.

From there you can build outward to study certain schools. The 8 volume set gives you a decent guidemap to many/most of the schools before you start coughing up the $150 to $650 for individual texts on certain schools.

[nihonto1001]

Thanks Guys.

[Thierry BERNARD]

the second one is kinko soran 金工総覧

third token yoran