Clive Sinclaire Samurai Swords - A Collector's Guide (Hardback)
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Further Details Title: Samurai Swords - A Collector's Guide Condition: New Description: Japanese swords, particularly those wielded by famous samurai warriors, hold a continuing fascination for collectors of fine arts and historical military weapons. This book is designed to enhance one's appreciation for the wide variety of Japanese swords (as well as their related polearms), their manufacture and their preservation. A fascinating opening chapter explains how the elite Samurai class dominated Japan for more than a thousand years, how technological and ideological advances overtook the Samurai in the 1860s, heralding a more up-to-date political and military system of governance, and how such changes affected Samurai sword design and manufacture. Subsequent chapters present topics of greatest relevance to today's sword collector: namely, the modern Japanese sword; different types of swords and their construction and testing; collecting and studying Japanese swords (and the tremendously important etiquette involved); and techniques of preserving and polishing swords. This book is beautifully illustrated with paintings, photographs, drawings, and maps. In addition, there is an in-depth glossary and useful tables explaining Japanese calligraphic symbols relating to swords, both of great value to the collector. Author: Clive Sinclaire EAN: 9784805314579 Format: Hardback Country/Region of Manufacture: US ISBN-10: 4805314575 ISBN: 9784805314579 Publisher: Tuttle Publishing Release Date: 09/26/2017 Language: English Item Height: 305mm Item Length: 229mm Item Weight: 1446g Subtitle: A Comprehensive Introduction to History, Collecting and Preservation - of the Japanese Sword Release Year: 2017 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
