Any Suggestions On A Good Kinko Tsuba Book

[lonely panet]

Greetings all,

 

well out of interest, is there any good books specifically on kinko tsuba? something on or including the Ko Goto, Ko Mino and maybe the lead into the Kyo kinko era.

 

kind regards H

[Grey Doffin]

Some possibilities, linked to their listings on my site.

Tosogu Machibori Meihin Shusei   http://www.japaneseswordbooksandtsuba.com/store/books/b638-tosogu-machibori-meihin-shusei-fukushi-shigeo

Tosogu Gokecho Meihin Shusei   http://www.japaneseswordbooksandtsuba.com/store/books/b381-tosogu-gokecho-meihin-shusei-fukushi-shigeo

Tosogu no Kansho   http://www.japaneseswordbooksandtsuba.com/store/books/b426-tosogu-no-kansho

Gotoke Ju Shichi Dai no Tosogu   http://www.japaneseswordbooksandtsuba.com/store/books/b112-gotoke-ju-shichi-dai-no-tosogu-sano-museum

Studies in Kyo Goto   http://www.japaneseswordbooksandtsuba.com/store/books/b640-studies-kyo-goto-kasahara-koju-%26-akimoto-shigeo

Toso Kinko Gotoke Ju Shichi Dai   http://www.japaneseswordbooksandtsuba.com/store/books/b515-toso-kinko-gotoke-jushichidai-shimada

And there are quite a few others; I could go on.  Copenhagen and The Baur Collection come to mind.  Hope this helps.

Grey

[lonely panet]

Hi Grey,

thanks for the links. not to be to picky but is there anybooks solely in English??

 

is Toso Kinko Gotoke Ju Shichi Dai the book Markus Sesko book on Toso Kinko tsuba??

 

regards Hamish

[Grey Doffin]

I'm not familiar with Markus' book but Gotoke Ju Shichi Dai is 17 generations of the Goto Family.  No books solely in English come to mind but Gai So Shi by Haynes and The Art Appreciation of Japanese Sword Fittings are English and heavy on Kinko.

Grey

[Ford Hallam]

For a reasonably thorough introduction to the various tsuba/tosogu schools and makers I'd suggest that the Red Cross catalogue might be a good start in forming a basic understanding of the broader subject. It's all b&w photos but it does provide a great many examples to help form a visual reference in terms of what each school's work looks like.

Japanese art & handicraft : an illustrated record of the loan exhibition held in aid of the British Red Cross in October-November 1915. by Henri Joly. (the 1976 reprint is generally available for under $100 or perhaps as a free pdf on0line)

 

Helen Gunsaulus' text in the catalogue of the Field Museum, Chicago would be an alternative although the Red Cross catalogue is better for the images. Here's a link to my dropbox for a pdf of the Gunsaulus book. Happy Christmas :-)

Japanese Sword Mounts By Helen C. Gunsaulus

[Brian]

Couple more....
http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/19239-interesting-pdf-articles-and-links/