Description: Hardcover oblong volume 16 x 23.3 cm with black pictorial paper boards lettered in red and white to front cover and spine, in an ochre slipcase sprinkled brown and lettered in black to front and spine; grey endpapers, pp. [2] 3-130 [2], with a bookshop ticket to back pastedown “ISSHINDō”. Illustrated descriptions of 100 Japanese sword handguards (tsuba) with brass inlay.
Title-page: 楽しい真鍮象嵌つば | 100 鐔 | 大谷定夫著
[Tanoshii Shinchū-Zōgan Tsuba | Hyakutan | Ōya Sadao cho] (Enjoying Brass Inlay Sword Guards | 100 Sword Guards | Author: Ōya Sadao)
Colophon:
Published December 15, 1999
Price: ¥3,800 (base price ¥3,619)
Author: Ōya Sadao (大谷定夫)
Producer: Ōtsuka Kōgeisha International
Publisher: Ōtsuka Kōgeisha Co. Ltd. (大塚工藝社)Phone 103–0016
Tōkyō-to, Chūō-ku, Nihonbashi Koami-chō 1–5
Tel. 03–5642–3511 (Representative)
Fax 03–5642–3618
Design: Takahashi Tōru (高橋享)
Photography: Kitami Noboru (北見登)
Kishioka Yasuhiro (岸岡保弘)
ISBN4–900298–03–4 C0072 ¥3619E
Subject: Ōnin tsuba; Heianjō tsuba; Suemon-zōgan; Ten-zōgan; Japanese sword handguards; Japanese sword fittings; Tosogu.
