Has Anyone Read This Book?

[Reddawn27]

As I continue to expand my Gunto book collection I ran across this book today on Amazon. While I'm sure it's no Dawson. How does the book hold up?? https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Japanese-Swords-Beginning-Gendaito/dp/150777012X

 

Thank you Dominic..

[David Flynn]

This is a good book to learn the different schools and main smiths of the Gendai era.

[Reddawn27]

I actually just found more info on this book right after posting this in Gerys for sale library lol. Looks like my kind of book! Next payday it shall be mine! Thanks! Dom..

[LakeBum]

http://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/17425-new-book-out-modern-Japanese-swords-the-beginning-of-the-gendaito-era/?do=findComment&comment=179694

 

I had the same question :D.  Here is the link.

[seattle1]

Hello:

 There is some useful information in the book and hence some value adding, however it suffers by repeating the whopper that Minatogawa Kikusui mon on the nakago are stamps, cf. p.29. That gross error was exposed years ago by Herman Wallinga and others, but the authors obviously took no note. Further the lack of careful editorial proof reading is revealed some pages later, pp. 120-21, where a MInatogawa Masakiyo is shown with the engraved mon on page 121 and on p. 120 the statement "The swords from the shrine often have the shrine's mon carved above the signature ..."

 Arnold F.

[Bruce Pennington]

Hello:

There is some useful information in the book and hence some value adding, however it suffers by repeating the whopper that Minatogawa Kikusui mon on the nakago are stamps, cf. p.29. That gross error was exposed years ago by Herman Wallinga and others, but the authors obviously took no note. Further the lack of careful editorial proof reading is revealed some pages later, pp. 120-21, where a MInatogawa Masakiyo is shown with the engraved mon on page 121 and on p. 120 the statement "The swords from the shrine often have the shrine's mon carved above the signature ..."

Arnold F.

I have the Kapps' first book and there are things in it, as well, that are tell-tale signs of folks writing about things without thorough knowledge of what they are saying. I don't have the book in hand, at the moment, but they make a statement about the number of swords that were made during the war and seem to lump both officer and NCO numbers together as if they don't realize that NCO are not officers. That aside, they put out some useful information not included in my other reference books.

 

Just goes to show - you have to become the expert in everything because the "experts" are human and need to be checked and verified (trust but verify, eh!).

[IJASWORDS]

Just placed an order on AMAZON for the book, based on David's assessment. Cant wait to receive it. Neil.