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Arts of Asia’s focus on a Japanese Armor Society member

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If you visit Berlin you must include a visit to Peter's Janssen's Museum. The quantity, and more importantly the quality, of the items on display are staggering. It certainly rates as the finest collection of its kind in the Western world and you would find it difficult to find its equivalent in Japan. His curator, Martyna Lesniewska, has written a catalogue of some of the more spectacular and unique helmets in the collection, which she is planning to publish later this year. Her knowledge of the cultural significance of the decoration and shapes of many of the helmets is profound and there is no doubt it will become a classic work of the subject. Do not however imagine it is all armour. There are blades of outstanding quality and koshirae of such outstanding beauty and workmanship that you would expect to see only in the finest collections in Japan. For me the star is a daisho with shakudo mounts by Omori Teruhide of dragons in clouds - the saya done with the tachibana and Hosokawa kamon in gold. Even more rare is a daisho with fittings in opaque pale blue glass which if nothing else is possibly unique. Add to these dozens of other exceptionally fine koshirae, tsuba and other mounts and you will come away dizzy.

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Where does one purchase the book/catalogue? 

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I may be mistaken but the catalogue that Ian mentions has not yet been published. The book that is available is the photography book with some of the armours being worn, an example of which is the photograph of Martyna (the Samurai Museum curator) shown in post #5.

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