WTB tsuba related books

[Teddy2808]

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]

Hi Teddy,

Check out my website for current inventory: https://www.Japanese.../item-category/book/

Cheers, Grey

[b.hennick]

Rokusho 28 and 34 if you can get them at that price. Great photos. 

[Brian]

Lethal Elegance is a high end coffee-table book that I am sure you would enjoy.

[1kinko]

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]

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]

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]

Teddy- ISBN4-8445-8550-9

¥3000E.

[1kinko]

Better luck at

suruga-ya.jp

¥800-1700. 

full: isbn4 8445 8550 9 c3072