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Japanese Sword Mounts
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Plates
- Introduction
- I. Early Types of Swords, Ken and Tachi. The Court Sword and Its Fittings
- II. The Dai-sho: Katana and Wakizashi. Small Swordsand Daggers. Nomenclature of the Fittings and Alloys Used for Mounts on the Dai-sho
- III. Tsuba of Swordsmiths and Armorers, Kanayama and Shingen Tsuba
- IV. Kaneiye and Myochin Nobuiye and His Followers.
- V. Early Inlays: Onin, Fushimi, Yoshiro, Tempo, Heianjo, Kaga, Gomoku-Zogan, Shoami, and Awa
- VI. The Sixteen Masters of the Goto School and Their Followers
- VII. The Umetada Family. The Ito School
- VIII. Foreign Influence Illustrated in the Hirado, Namban, and Hizen Tsuba. Jakushi and Soten of Hikone
- IX. Higo, Akasaka, Sunagawa, Akao, and Satsuma Tsuba. Kinai of Echizen
- X. The Nara and Hamano Schools. Iwama Masayoshi and His Followers
- XI. The Schools of Bushu and Choshu. Tetsugendo Artists
- XII. The Yokoya School and Its Subsidiary Branches: the Iwamoto, Yanagawa, Sano, and Inagawa Families
- XIII. The Omori and Ishiguro Schools
- XIV. The Ichinomiya School and Hosono Masamori of Kyoto. Sumizogan, Guribori, Murakami, and Enamels
- XV. The Schools of Mito. The Tamagawa Family
- XVI. The Uchikoshi and Tanaka Schools. The Sonobe Family
- XVII. The Otsuki School. Haruaki Hogen
- XVIII. Goto Ichijo and His Pupils
- Appendix. Observations on the Restoration of Patina by Henry W. Nichols
- List of Signatures on Sword Mounts
- General Index