Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

I would not recommend this 'reprint' version for any collector or serious student of Japanese Sword Guards. While the bookbinding, text and illustrations are fine, a critical part for review and appreciation are the pictures of tsuba located at the back of the book. These pictures are simply bad photocopies of the original(?) book and do not show any detail in the sword guards. Since this book's copyright has long expired, you can easily find better quality, legally downloadable pdf versions using your favorite search engine. -Jack Howe

Contents

Prefatory note
Section I
A brief description of the tsuba of different periods
Historical account
Section II
An alphabetical list of schools with names of the principal tsuba makers under each school.
Section III A catalogue of the present exhibition (1907-1908), including notes on certain examples.
Western series.
Eastern series.
index
Names of schools.
Names of artists.
Examples.