Tsuba
by Kokubo, Kenichi and Monichiro Kamiya
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Tokyo: Shibata bijutsu tokenten toshobu, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 398 pages. 7-1/4 by 10-1/2 inches.
A monograph of tsuba, the guards on Japanese swords. The book includes 20 full-page color plate, each protected with a tissue guard, and 298 black-and-white photographs, most two to a page. The captions are in Japanese only. The remainder of the book, about 180 pages, is text, entirely in Japanese.
Series: Aigan meihin shu, volume 2. A fine copy in a fine slipcase. This copy comes in the original cardboard box which has some bookseller notations in pencil.
A monograph of tsuba, the guards on Japanese swords. The book includes 20 full-page color plate, each protected with a tissue guard, and 298 black-and-white photographs, most two to a page. The captions are in Japanese only. The remainder of the book, about 180 pages, is text, entirely in Japanese.
Series: Aigan meihin shu, volume 2. A fine copy in a fine slipcase. This copy comes in the original cardboard box which has some bookseller notations in pencil.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Downtown Brown Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 306919
- Title
- Tsuba
- Author
- Kokubo, Kenichi and Monichiro Kamiya
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Shibata bijutsu tokenten toshobu
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo
- Date Published
- 1963
- Bookseller catalogs
- MILITARY; Japan;
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