New Yoshihara book

[Clive Sinclaire]

Gentlemen

I have been sent the following link which details a new book by Yoshihara Yoshindo and Lonnie Kapp. It is http://www.theartofthejapanesesword.com Confusingly this seems to say that it will be out in Sept 2011 but according to Lonnie at the San Fran show, where there were drafts of a number of pages, it will be published early next year. I will attempt to clarify this. (by the way, there is a short essay by me in it!).

Regards

Clive Sinclaire

[Clive Sinclaire]

Further to the above, I now understand that Yoshihara Yoshindo will be presenting a sword to New York City on 11th Sep (9/11) 2011.

Clive Sinclaire

[Brian]

Thanks Clive. I'll be looking out for that one.

 

Brian

[Lorenzo]

A small teaser.

 

http://issuu.com/savioloedizioni/docs/t ... anesesword

[ububob]

Any indication of price?

[Guido]

Looks like a jazzed up version of the "crafts" book - I love the Yoshihara cation figure, though ("collect all 12"?) ...

[Lorenzo]

Firstly I would like to say that I am not in any way related to the publisher or others, so I just put the link moved by curiosity; most of all because I had exactly the same thoughts as Guido... and my thoughts hasn't still changed.

 

What I can say is that I have read what the writers says about it.

 

It was planned as a book written by the Italian author developing the gokaden part of the old "The craft of the Japanese sword" but it the project was turned down, and became instead of a descriptive book a fully illustrated book, with pictures taken in Yoshindo's Tokyo workplace. So the book shows Yoshindo working on a sword page by page; 250 in total.

 

I have no more infos by now, but I will add if I get.

[Lorenzo]

  ububob said:

Any indication of price?

 

here:

http://www.theartofthejapanesesword.com ... category=6