Japanese Swords & Sword Furniture in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston by Morihiro Ogawa

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Japanese Sword Book
by Morihiro Ogawa
Massive book
Super Collectible
Great read

Japanese Swords & Sword Furniture Description

Catalogue by Morihiro Ogawa.Contains hundreds of the finest pieces relating to Nihonto and Tosogu.Cataloqued by Morihiro Ogawa of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Mr. Ogawa is well respected as one of the foremost authorities in the world on the subject.The reader is in awe from page one, as they are captivated by excellent commentary and photography on large, high quality pages. The first item is a Rai Kunitoshi Tanto, followed by many other important works in both, Nihonto and Tosogu. Owning this book is the next best thing to seeing these items first hand.

'On the back' of Japanese Swords & Sword Furniture

Japanese Swords and Sword Furniture in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston by Morihiro Ogawa, Fellow for Research in Japanese arms and armor in the Department of Asiatic Art, represents a major effort to make the Museum's celebrated collections of Japanese swords and sword furniture known to a wider public.

It is the result of years of painstaking research, undertaken at the suggestion of the renowned connoisseur Sato Kanzan who first proposed this publication when he inspected the collection in 1975.

The catalogue deals with the finest specimens in the collection, ranging in date from the 5th century sword hilt, reportedly from the tomb of the Emperor Nintoku, to works of the best swordsmiths of the late 19th cen-tury. Most of the masterpieces, selected from the collections to be included in this catalogue, were acquired in Japan about a hundred years ago by Dr. William Sturgis Bigelow. During his years of residence in Japan Dr. Bigelow came to know and befriended several of the leading swordsmiths of his days. In many respects the collection still reflects these early ties between the first great Bostonian collector of swords and the artists, often the last representatives of a long family tradition, who were his contemporaries.

This extensive catalogue brings together a wealth of new technical, historical and biographical information not available in any other non-Japanese source. It is an essential reference work, not only for collectors of Japanese swords and Sword furniture, but for all who have an ink these uniquely Japanese art forms.

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