Nihontô Book List

Gregory Irvine (2000) The Japanese Sword - The Soul of the Samurai
Victoria and Albert Museum. London - ISBN 1851773142
128pp - Hardback - 25UKP

Kokan Nagayama (March 1998) The Connoisseur's Guide to Japanese Swords
Kodansha International ISBN 4-7700-2071-6
368pp - 560 illustrations - 189 x 257mm - Hardback - 50 UKP.

Nagayama Kokan (translated by Kenji Mishina) Tô-ken Kantei Dokuhon
Tô-ken Society of Great Britain
Malcom Cox Mino-Tô. Swords and Swordsmiths of Mino Province
ISBN 0-86856-905-4
Available from:
QUT Bookshop
GPO Box 2434,
Brisbane, 4001, QLD, AUSTRALIA
Also from Alan Bale in the UK. See Booksellers
Kanzan Satô (1983) The Japanese Sword
Kodansha International and Shibundo. Tokyo
ISBN 0-87011-562-6
Kapp L. & H., Yoshindo Yoshihara (1987) Craft of the Japanese Sword
Kodansha International. Tokyo
ISBN 0-87011-798-X
Fuller R. & Gregory R. (1993) Military Swords of Japan
Arms & Armour Press. London
ISBN 185409 193-2
Fuller R. & Gregory R. (1996) Japanese Military & Civil Swords & Dirks
Airlife. Shrewsbury (UK)
ISBN 1-85310-715-8
Joly H.L. (1913) The Sword and Samé
Holland Press. London (reprint)
ISBN 0-900-470-35-6
Harris V. & Nobuo Ogasawara (1990) Swords of the Samurai
British Museum. London
ISBN 0-7141-1450-2
Yumato J. M. (1958) The Samurai Sword - A Handbook
Charles E. Tuttle. Tokyo (reprint)
ISBN 0-8048-0509-1
Dawson J. (1996) Swords of Imperial Japan 1868-1945
Stenger-Scott Publishing. Newnan, Georgia

Shigeo Sugawa (1991) The Japanese Matchlock - A Story of the Tanegashima
Shigeo Sugawa. Tokyo, Japan

Inami Hakusui (1948) Nippon-tô The Japanese Sword
Cosmo Publishing Co. Tokyo
Robinson B.W. (1961) The Arts of the Japanese Sword
Faber and Faber. London
Hawley W.M. (1981) Japanese Swordsmiths Revised
Hawley Publications. Hollywood, USA
Knutsen R.M. (1963) Japanese Polearms
Holland Press. London

Sakakibara Kôzan (revised/edited by Robinson H.R.) (1963)
The Manufacture of Armour and Helmets in 16th century Japan
Holland Press. London