Selection of old nihonto and related books to download

[Marius]

Dear All,

 

the books I have assembled might be interesting for the nihonto collector - some of them are early Japanese sword books, some are about art, legend and samurai tales. Most of them can be found on the Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/ - they have been digitised for the Archive by Microsoft and can be freely downloaded and distributed for non-commercial use. I thought it might be conveniet to have them all in one place, so I have uploaded them to my file sharing site for you to download. I hope that at least some of you don't have these books yet, and that they might be of use to you. "Legend in Japanese Art" is a nice example - packed with information about various characters you can find on kogodu (this book has also illustrations of tsuba).

 

You will find the books here: http://public.me.com/mariuszk

In order to download a book, please click on the little arrow on the right side.

 

And here is the list:

 

A Muramasa Blade, A story of Feudalism in Old Japan, Louis Wrtheimber, Boston 1887

Gods and Heroes of Old Japan, Violet M. Pasteur, London 1906

Japanese Sword and its decoration, Helen C. Gunsaulus, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago 1924

Japanese Sword Mounts in the Collections of Field Museum, Helen C. Gunsaulus, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago 1923

Japanese Sword Guards, Okabe Kakuya, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (exhibition catalogue 1907-1908)

Legend in Japanese Art, Henry L. Joly, London, New York, 1908

Tales from Old Japanese Dramas, Asato Miyamori, revised by Stanley HughesNew York, London 1915

Tales of the Samurai, Stories illustrating Bushido, the Moral Principles of the Japanese Knighthood, Asataro Miyamori, Tokyo 1920

 

 

 

Enjoy :-)

[Jean]

Many Thanks Mariuszk

[Brian]

Ignoring the announcements at the top of the General Section? :D

(See? No-one reads the stickys or announcements!)

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Brian

[Marius]

Oh, great. Now I have made a fool of myself (not the first, not the last time..

 

Brian, please would be so kind as to delete my post? It is rather embarassing

[Brian]

Not at all

It's good that you backed them up. I didn't want to upload them here to save a bit of bandwidth.

Also, you have a few there that I didn't have. It's all good..the more we remind people, the better. And there are several $1000 worth of books there for free. Hope everyone at least got the main ones.

 

Brian

[Aloof Pegasus]

Great downloads, thanks a lot, very nice of you.

 

Philip Loftus

[oristt]

Thanks I've been looking for some more reading material