[Mobile book] Japanese Sword: Soul Of The Samurai (Far Eastern Series / Victoria and Albert Museum)
☆ Gregory Irvine ☆
| #3004656 in Books | Weatherhill | 2000-09-01 | 2000-09-01 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.80 x.80 x8.40l, | File Name: 0834804751 | 128 pages |
||30 of 32 people found the following review helpful.| The Soul of the Samurai covers the major periods well...|By Kindle Customer|Although the book is short (122 pages) it covers the major periods of the Japanese sword well. There is a short section on the making of the Japanese sword as well as basic terminology. If you are looking for more information on the making of a katana buy Kapp and Yoshihara's "The Craft of the Japa|About the Author|Gregory Irvine is curator in the Far Eastern Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum, responsible for the collections of Japanese metalwork, particularly arms and armor. Formerly a curator in the Department of Japanese Antiquities of the B
Drawing on the Victoria and Albert Museum's magnificent collection, one of the finest in the West, this illustrated survey examines the development of the Japanese sword in an historical and social context from the eighth to the twentieth century.
The development of the sword from its origins as one of the world's most effective cutting weapons is seen in the context of the emergence and development of Japan's ruling military class, the samurai, to whom it was...
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