Title: Katchū men mononofu no kasō
Author: Iida, Kazuo
Publisher: Tōken Shunjū Shinbunsha
Year: 1991
Language: Japanese, some English
Illustrations: Few color pictures, many black and white pictures
Info: 320 + 9 pages, 30 cm by 21.5 cm, hardcover
Topics: Armour, masks
ID: B0014
This is as far as I know the only serious book on menpō . Several of the examples in the book have become famous and have ended up in big collections. En reprint in softcover was published a few years ago (see B0203). The pictures in this big hard cover edition are slightly better in my eyes.
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