Tōsōgu, Kodōgu & Nihontō Books - Prices Reduced -

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Tōsōgu, Kodōgu & Nihontō Books - Prices Reduced -


All Prices USD + Shipping


Books Available -


1} "Toso Kodōgu Koza" ~ By Takeshi Wakayama ~ 8 Volume Set ~ 1972 ~ HC / SC
- Japanese Text -

$545-

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2} "Sukashi Tsuba (Bushido no Bi) ~ By Sasano & Fujimoto ~ 1972 First Edition ~ CB / HC / SC
- Japanese Text -

$200-

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3} "Early Japanese Sword Guards - Sukashi Tsuba" ~ By Sasano & Fujimoto ~ American Version of above ~ 1972 ~ CB / HC / DJ
- English Text -

$95-

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4} "Tanyu-Kai Zuroku II" {Catalog Vol. II} ~ By The Shoyukai Kodōgu Group ~ The Best of the Best ~ 1999 ~ CB / HC / HS / SC
- Japanese Text -

$300-

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5} "Tōken Hyakka Nenpyo" ~ Chronology of Sword Smiths ~ By Iida Kazuo ~ 1971 ~ CB / HC / SC
- Japanese Text -

$30-

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6} “The Index of Japanese Sword Fittings and Associated Artists”
~ By Robert E. Haynes ~ 3 volume set ~ w/ Lucite slip-case + CD-ROM (all 3 volumes on disk)
~ 2001 ~ PB
- English Text / Japanese Kanji

$145-

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7} "Shosankenshu - Henri Joly's List of Names and Kakihan" ~ By Henri Joly ~ 1963 ~ HC / acetate DJ
Japanese Kanji & English

$50-

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8} "Nihon no Buki Bugu" (Weapons & Armor of Japan) ~ Tōkyō National Museum Exhibition Catalog ~ October & November 1976 ~ CB / HC / DJ
- English & Japanese Text -

$200-

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9} "Genshoku Nihon no Bijutsu 21: Katchū to tōken" (Japanese Art {Armor, Helmets & Swords} Volume 21) ~ By Motoharu Ozaki & Kanzan Satō
~ 1970 ~ HC / DJ
Japanese Text / w/ English Text sub-section

$75-

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10} "Japanese Art & Handicraft” (the "Red Cross" catalog) ~ By Henri L. Joly & K. Tomita ~ 1976 ~ CB / HC / DJ
- English Text -

$200-

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11} "Tsuba: Aigan Meihin Shu-Dai Ni Hen" ~ Tsuba Favorite Masterpieces, vol. 2
{By members of the Shibata Tsuba study group} + 10 page English Index ~ 1963 ~ CB / HC / SC
*wood veneer sheet front end-paper*
- Japanese Text -
Extremely Rare

$500-

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12} “Kōzuka 100 - The Claude Thuault Collection” ~ By Ogasawara / Thuault ~ 1993 ~ HC / DJ
Japanese & English Captions -

$60-

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13} "Japanese Swords and Sword Furniture in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston" #132 ~ 1987 ~ HC / CB / SC
Japanese Text (English Foreword) + Plus 34 page - English Text - Glossary Supplement ~ PB ~ 2 Books

$400-

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14} "The Baur Collection" ~ Japanese Sword-Fittings and Associated Metalwork
By B.W. Robinson ~ 1980 ~ HC / CB / DJ / SC
- English Text -

$450-

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15} "Kinko Meikan" ~ By Kokuho Kenichi, Masumoto Suichiro ~ 1974 ~ HC / CB / SC
~ By John Yumoto & Alan Harvie ~ 1982
- Japanese Text + 197 page English Translation -
Translation - every page in a 3 ring clear plastic sheet protector - bound in 3 ring vinyl notebook

$285-

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16} "Swords of the Samurai" ~ By Victor Harris Nobuo Ogasawara ~ 1990 ~ PB
- English Text -

$35-

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17} "Nihon no Katana" - The Japanese Sword: Iron Craftsmanship and the Warrior Spirit
Tōkyō National Museum, Special Exhibition, 14 October - 24 November ~ 1997 ~ PB
{writing inside front cover}
- Japanese Text / w/ English Text sub-sections

$70-

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18} “Tōken Koshirae Kodōgu Zuroku" - Catalogue of Swords, Mountings & Fittings ~
By Japan Art Sword Preservation Society, NBTHK, Tōkyō ~ 1969 ~ PB ~ {bumped corners}
- Japanese Text -

$75-

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19} "Tōken Tōsōgu ~ Swords and Sword Fittings ~ Treasures from the Tokugawa Art Museum" ~ #3 ~ 1998 ~ HC
(dedication inside front cover)
- Japanese Text / w/ English Text sub-section

$75-

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20} "Illustrated Catalogue of Tōkyō National Museum - Sword Mountings" ~ 1997 ~ CB / HC / DJ
{price in pencil}
- Japanese Text / w/ English Text sub-sections

$75-

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21} "Zabo Tansen" ~ By Kenichi Kokubo & Kenzo Ootsubo ~ 1974 ~ half-leather / CB / HC / SC
- Japanese Text -

$300-

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22} "Handbook of Sword Fittings related Terms" ~ By Markus Sesko ~ 2011 ~ PB
- English Text -

$20-

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23} x3 Books, One Price + Shipping

a} "Samurai: The World of the Warrior" ~ By Stephen Turnbull ~ 2003 ~ HC / DJ
- English Text -

b} "The Samurai and the Sacred" ~ By Stephen Turnbull ~ 2006 ~ HC / DJ
- English Text -

c} "Arms and Armor of the Samurai - The History of Weaponry in Ancient Japan" (Reprint Edition) ~
By Ian Bottomley, A. Hopson & S.Turnbull ~ 1993 ~ HC / DJ
- English Text -

$20-

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24} x4 Books, One Price + Shipping

a} "The Book of Five Rings: the sword master's ancient wisdom for winning" ~ By Musashi Miyamoto
(Translated by W. Ridgeway) ~ 2008 ~ HC / DJ
- English Text -

b} "Bushido: The Code of the Samurai" ~ By Nitobe, Inazo ~ 2006 ~ HC / DJ
- English Text -

c} "Hagakure" ~ By Yamamoto Tsunetomo ~ 2008 ~ HC / DJ
- English Text -

d} "The Sword & the Mind" ~ By Yagyu Munenori (Translated by W. Ridgeway) ~ 2008 ~ HC / DJ
- English Text -

$20-

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- New Additions -


25} "Japanese Sword Guards-Art of War" ~ By Gary D. Murtha ~ 2015 ~ PB
- English Text -

$30-

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26} "Lethal Elegance - The Art of Samurai Sword Fittings" by Joe Earle ~ 2004 ~ PB
- English Text -

$25

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27} "1100 Japanese Sword Terms & 400 named blades" ~ By W.M. Hawley ~ 1995
every page in a 3 ring clear plastic sheet protector - bound in 3 ring vinyl notebook
- English Text -

$35-

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28} "Japanese Sword Surrender Tags - 103 Fully Translated with Kanji -
Plus Retention Certificates & Surrender Letters ~ 1st Edition ~ #74 ~
By Richard Fuller ~ 2014 ~ PB
Signed Edition / and Dedication to me
- English Text -

$85.00

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- Auction Catalogs -


1a} "The Hartman Collection of Japanese Metalwork" ~ Christie's ~ 1976 ~ CB /HC
- English Text -

$65-

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2a} "The Field Marshal Sir Francis Festing Collection of Japanese Swords and Sword Fittings
from the Collection of Lt. Col. H.A. Backhoff" ~ Sotheby's ~ 1993 ~ w/prices realized ~ PB
{several auction notes}
- English Text -

$70-

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3a} "Japanese Swords and Tsuba from the Professor A.Z. Freeman & Phyllis Sharpe Memorial Collections"
~ Sotheby's ~ 1997 ~ w/prices realized ~ PB
- English Text -

$70-

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4a} "The Dr. Walter Heihs Collection of Japanese Miniature Arts" ~ Sotheby's ~ 1998
~ w/prices realized ~ PB
- English Text -

$50-


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5a} "Japanese Works Of Art - Collection of Charles A. Greenfield" Parts I, II & III ~
Sotheby's ~ 1998 – 1999 - All w/prices realized
Part 1 ~ HC / DJ ~ Parts 2 & 3 ~ PB {part 1 with auction notes}
- English Text -

$145-

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6a} "Japanese and Korean Works of Art" ~ Sotheby's New York ~ 2000 ~ PB
- English Text -

$30-

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7a} "Japanese Works of Art" ~ Sotheby's New York ~ 1998
- w/prices realized ~ PB ~ {several auction notes}
- English Text -

$40-

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8a} "Japanese and Korean Art" ~ Sotheby's New York ~ 2000 ~ PB
- English Text -

$35

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- Miscellaneous - (mc) -


mc 1} "Arms and Armor of Ancient Japan - A Historical Survey"
Co-Sponsored by the Municipal Art Patrons of Los Angeles - and
Southern California Token Kai

Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park

Los Angeles Exhibition ~ February 19th through March 22nd 1964

- English Text -

68 pages

Not bound - Pages punched for 3 ring notebook

Hartley notes - cross-outs - owner attributions - on nearly every page

$40-

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mc 2} Archive -

Translations of Shinkichi Hara - Germany

~ Circa 1930 ~

Translated from the German by Helga E. Reap & Alan L. Harvey

- English Text - w/ Japanese Maker Kanji -

Totals about 60 pages - double sided - w/ a few illustrations

Includes -

* "Survey of the History of Japanese Sword Fittings"

Translated from the German by Helga E. Reap & Alan L. Harvey - Taken from
Shinkichi Hara's "Die Meister der Japan-ischen Schwertzieraten"
Hamburg: Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe - Hamburg, Germany - 1931

- English Text -

18 pages

Not bound - Pages punched for 3 ring notebook

notes - cross-outs - owner attributions

- Plus -

* "Shinkichi Hara" by Otto Kummel

Translated by Helga E. Reap & Alan L. Harvey

A short biography of Shinkichi Hara's life

- English Text -

3 pages

1935?

Not bound - Pages punched for 3 ring notebook

- Plus -

* "Contributions to the Register of the Masters of Sword Mountings by Shinkichi Hara"

By Edgar Franckel

Translated by Helga E. Reap & Alan L. Harvey

- English Text -

41 pages

Many references to Henri Joly's "Shosankenshu"

Also Includes:

- All English Text -

* "Supplement" by Otto Kummel - Translated by Helga E. Reap & Alan L. Harvey

* "Reply to Edgar Franckel's Contributions to the Register of the Masters of Sword Mountings - and -
Otto Kummel's Supplement" by Shinkichi Hara - Translated by Helga E. Reap & Alan L. Harvey

* "Henri L. Joly: Shosankenshu, List of Names, Kakihan, collected from sword mounts ect.
Supplement to Shinkichi Hara's "Meister.... Privately Printed, London, 1919...."
By Shinkichi Hara - Translated by Helga E. Reap

* Editor's Note regarding a tipped-in notation for "Japanese Sword Guards, Some Tsuba in the Collection
of Sir Arthur H. Church" - To a Mr Dyer (publisher?) from Arthur H. Church

* "Hara's Review of Henri Joly's Shosankenshu"
by Martin Kuznitzky - Translated by Helga E. Reap

Archive $125-

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mc 3} "The Tsuba" By Gary D. Murtha ~ 1981
Signed by Gary D. Murtha

- English Text -

72 pages

Not bound - Pages punched for 3 ring notebook

$30-


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Price for more than one (1) book is negotiable -

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Key to abbreviations used above

HC = Hardcover
CB = Cloth bound
SC = Slipcase
DJ = Dust Jacket
PB = Paperback
HS = Heavy Stock Pages

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Many of these books are in Very Good to Near Fine condition with no writing, notes, dog-ears, or pages missing

Unless otherwise noted, assume the book is in Very Good to Near Fine condition

A couple of these books are from the Colonel Dean S. Hartley Jr Collection & have his Library Bookplate


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[Andi B.]

Nice books!