Marius Posted January 21, 2009 Report Posted January 21, 2009 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 :-) Quote
Brian Posted January 21, 2009 Report Posted January 21, 2009 Ignoring the announcements at the top of the General Section? :D (See? No-one reads the stickys or announcements!) viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2549 Brian Quote
Marius Posted January 21, 2009 Author Report Posted January 21, 2009 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 Quote
Brian Posted January 21, 2009 Report Posted January 21, 2009 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 Quote
Aloof Pegasus Posted January 21, 2009 Report Posted January 21, 2009 Great downloads, thanks a lot, very nice of you. Philip Loftus Quote
oristt Posted January 21, 2009 Report Posted January 21, 2009 Thanks I've been looking for some more reading material Quote
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