Teddy2808 Posted June 18, 2023 Report Posted June 18, 2023 Lookign for Tsuba related books. Preferably focusing more on edo to present and less on sukashi. Looking to spend maybe 50$ max a pop although depends could be more. I’d like high quality colored pictures but translations are not a must.
Grey Doffin Posted June 19, 2023 Report Posted June 19, 2023 Hi Teddy, Check out my website for current inventory: https://www.Japanese.../item-category/book/ Cheers, Grey
b.hennick Posted June 19, 2023 Report Posted June 19, 2023 Rokusho 28 and 34 if you can get them at that price. Great photos.
Brian Posted June 19, 2023 Report Posted June 19, 2023 Lethal Elegance is a high end coffee-table book that I am sure you would enjoy.
1kinko Posted June 19, 2023 Report Posted June 19, 2023 The Rokusho books and Lethal Elegance have the best photo reproductions, but you won’t learn much about technique from the text. Another good source for a lot of images is The Art Appreciation of Japanese Sword Fittings by Shigeo Fukushima (Japanese). For technique, Traditional Soft-metal Workers Trchniques (Katorai Mashiko) is the most comprehensive(with good illustrations) I’ve found (but it takes some real effort to understand the stuff google translate produces). There are a few more but I haven’t got to English translations of the titles handy. A lot of information can be found in the Following the Iron Brush archives
Teddy2808 Posted June 23, 2023 Author Report Posted June 23, 2023 On 6/19/2023 at 9:48 AM, 1kinko said: The Rokusho books and Lethal Elegance have the best photo reproductions, but you won’t learn much about technique from the text. Another good source for a lot of images is The Art Appreciation of Japanese Sword Fittings by Shigeo Fukushima (Japanese). For technique, Traditional Soft-metal Workers Trchniques (Katorai Mashiko) is the most comprehensive(with good illustrations) I’ve found (but it takes some real effort to understand the stuff google translate produces). There are a few more but I haven’t got to English translations of the titles handy. A lot of information can be found in the Following the Iron Brush archives Oh I didn’t know the forum could also still be accessed. I’ll have to check again. I already own rokusho 28 and it is an excellent book. I’ll look into getting 34. I’m trying to track down the traditional soft metal techniques books with no success.
Spartancrest Posted June 23, 2023 Report Posted June 23, 2023 An excellent book in both Japanese and English captions - https://www.jauce.com/auction/u1094847204 or https://buyee.jp/ite.../auction/u1094847204 Fantastic quality binding, life size images most in B&W. If you get the book there may be two pages without captions but I have the pages you can insert.
1kinko Posted June 23, 2023 Report Posted June 23, 2023 Better luck at suruga-ya.jp ¥800-1700. full: isbn4 8445 8550 9 c3072
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