Additional books for sale

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1. Japanese Art Signatures: - $95 + shipping

 

James Self, Nobuko Hirose
Find and identify over 11,000 names of Japanese artists and craftspeople, from all periods and in all media. Includes a sections on reading dates, a list of 300 modified and debased characters, and an index of provinces and place names, plus reproductions of date and censor seals on woodblock prints, publishers' trademarks and seals, and actors' and Genji mon. 

 

 

2. Japanese sword guards from the Peabody Museum - $40 + shipping

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3. Shinshinto Taikan - $375.00 + shipping
Iimura Yoshifume
The authoritative standard on Shinshinto period swords (includes many gendaito).  Japanese-language text with outstanding, large format oshigata with a separate English-language index.
887 pages, 8¾ x 11¾" hardcover, slipcase 

4. Kanto Zuiroku - $195.00 + shipping

 

 

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5. Gendaito Meisaku Zuikan - $295 + shipping
Sato Kanzan (1977)
From the English-language index, the noted author declares this "an illustrated book of masterpieces made by contemporary Japanese swordsmiths".  In all, the works of thirty-five contemporary toshō are shown in large format plates with oshigata and photographs as seen here. For students of gendaitō, this is an important text, unique for presenting its subject in the same format as normally reserved for blades of great antiquity. Numbered, limited printing of only 800 editions.
10 x 14¼" cloth hardcover with slipcase  

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Last seven books below.

1. Kanto Zuiroku - $195.00 + shipping
2.  Shinshinto Taikan - $375.00 + shipping
3. Gendaito Meisaku Zuikan - $295 + shipping
4. Samurai Revolution - $75.00 + shipping
5: Katana: The Samurai Sword - $15.00 + shipping
6. Japanese sword guards from the Peabody Museum - $40 + shipping
7. Japanese Art Signatures: - $95 + shipping