Question About A Tsuba Book

[zanilu]

Dear All

 

I have seen in the past several copies of the book reported in the attached picture on sale on Yahoo Japan

I was wondering if any of you has it in its library and if it is worth to have as a reference book on tsuba also considering that it has Japanese only text.

 

Thank you in advance for sharing your knowledge about the book.

 

Regards

Luca 

[Grey Doffin]

Hi Luca,

I don't currently have a copy to sell (but I will soon); here is a link to the book, Tsuba Taikan, on my website.  This will tell you more about the book.

http://www.japaneseswordbooksandtsuba.com/store/books/b667-tsuba-taikan-kawaguchi-noboru

Grey

[Rich S]

I have this book, the Tsuba Taikan. Basically the bible for tsuba for me. Of course all in Japanese (no available translation that I know of). There are the names of the artists in English at the start of each school. I use it by comparison and a very little knowledge of Japanese. I use Rich Turner's pages for my main reference to the Kanji for various parts and schools.

 

http://www.jssus.org/nkp/kanji_for_tsuba.html

 

Rich

[zanilu]

Grey, Rich

Thank you for the information.

 

Regards Luca