WTS Japanese Sword Books & Dictionaries

[Kiipu]

Listing for sale the last of the Japanese dictionaries in storage.

 

Kenkyusha’s New Japanese-English Dictionary. Edited by Koh Masuda. 4th edition. Kenkyusha, 1974. Boxed, dust jacket, hardcover, 7 x 10 inches, 2114 pages, text only.  Weight 5 lb 11 oz including box; printed in Japan. US$99.

 

O’Neill, P. G. Japanese Names: A Comprehensive Index by Characters and Readings. John Weatherhill, Inc., 1972. Dust jacket, red hardcover, 6.25 x 9.25 inches, 360 pages, text only. Weight 1 lb 11 oz, printed Japan. US$25.

 

Creswell, H. T., J. Hiraoka, and R. Namba. A Dictionary of Military Terms: English-Japanese, Japanese-English. American edition. University of Chicago Press, 1942. Hardcover, 7 x 6 inches, 1404 pages, two pages per page, text only. Weight 1 lb 9 oz, printed in USA. US$40.

 

All of the above have no writing or highlighting, no missing pages or tears, all in very good condition.

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Kerchove, René de. International Maritime Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Useful Maritime Terms and Phrases, together with Equivalents in French and German. 2nd edition. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1961.  Blue hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, 1018 pages, drawings. Weight 3 pounds 4 ounces, printed in USA. $25.

 

 

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Sample pages for the first three dictionaries.

 

Kenkyusha's

 

O'Neill

 

 

Creswell

 

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Creswell, H. T., J. Hiraoka, and R. Namba. A Dictionary of Military Terms: English-Japanese, Japanese-English. 1942.

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Kerchove, René de. International Maritime Dictionary. 2nd edition. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1961.

These are no longer available for sale.

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Sugawa Shigeo. The Japanese Matchlock: A Story of the Tanegashima. 1991. A translation of Nihon no hinawajū 日本の火縄銃. Used, English language, hardcover, color, 62 pages. Weight 1 lb 10 oz, printed in Japan.  Autographed by author. US$175.

 

 

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Dawson, Jim. Swords of Imperial Japan, 1868–1945. Stenger-Scott Publishing, 1996.

Softcover, 8.5 x 11 inches, 160 pages, B&W illustrations. Weight 1 lb 6 oz, printed in USA. Some pages started falling out so converted it into a 3-ring binder format. No writing, no missing pages, no tears, etc. This was the first edition that came out. US$60 includes shipping in States. Can be shipped overseas via USPS Priority Mail Flat Rate Envelope.

 

Fuller, Richard, and Ron Gregory. Japanese Military and Civil Swords and Dirks. Howell Press, 1997.

Dust jacket, hardcover, 7.5 x 9.75 inches, 288 pages, B&W illustrations with 8 page color insert. Weight 2 lb 6 oz, printed in Hong Kong. US$225.

 

 

 

 

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O’Neill, P. G. Japanese Names: A Comprehensive Index by Characters and Readings. John Weatherhill, Inc., 1972.

No longer available for sale.

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Sugawa Shigeo. Japanese Soldiers at the China Front, 1930’s. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Banzai, 1994.

Softcover, 8.5 x 11 inches, 167 pages, B&W illustrations. Weight 1 lb 8 oz, printed in USA.  No writing, tears, or missing pages.  US$125.

A really interesting book with much information about uniforms, personal equipment, and such.  Each picture is captioned with information about what is seen.  The pictures in the book date from 1932 to 1941.  The second picture below is slightly larger so that one can read the text about swords.

 

 

 

 

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Kapp, Leon & Hiroko, and Leo Monson. Modern Japanese Swords: The Beginning of the Gendaito Era. 2015.

Sold

[Michaelr]

Thomas I will take the last book you posted for $30.00 shipped. ( modern Japanese swords ). Thank you. MikeR  

 pm me with how you would like payment and for my information

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Ohmura Tomoyuki 大村･紀征. Shinsetsu　tatakau Nihontō 真説〜戦う日本刀―“最高”と呼べる武器性能の探究 [True Theory, Japanese Fighting Sword]. Tōkyō: BAB Japan, 2019.

Dust jacket, softcover, 5.75 x 8.25 inches, 248 pages, B&W & grayscale illustrations.  Weight 0 lb 13 oz, printed in China.  US$30 and includes shipping to USA.