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Subject | Arms and Armour, Japan, Japanese art, Japanese sword, Japanese sword handguards, Tsuba |
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Senichiro Masumoto, Kenichi Kokubo. Kinkō Meikan. — Tokyo: Token Shunju-sha, 1974; with English translation by John Yumoto & Alan Harvie: Listing of non-ferro fitting makers. — San Mateo, CA: John M. Yumoto, 1982.
Publisher’s brown cloth stamped in gilt, in a slipcase, 19 x 14 cm; pp.: [11] 1-657 [1] 1-12 [6]; in Japanese. With full English translation published in 1982 on letter-size writing paper in a separate folder, 29.5 x 23 cm, pp. [2] i-iii, 1-197, 1-52, 1-3.
“Kinkō Meikan is a collection of photographs of signatures that appear on the tsuba and other fittings of the Japanese sword”.