Title: Nihon no katchū
Author: Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan
Publisher: Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan (京都国立博物館) Ôtska kôgeisya
Year: 1989
Language: Japanese, some English
Illustrations: Numerous color pictures, black and white pictures
Info: 254 pages, 37 cm by 22.5 cm, hardcover
ID: B0024
This famous large format book is based on a Japanese armour exhibition that was held in the Kyōto National Museum in 1987. The large photos are excellent.
There is a much smaller (and much cheaper) catalog of the same exhibition also.
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