Book Review: Art of the Armor - Samurai Armor from the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection by JG Barbier-Mueller

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Book Review: Art of the Armor - Samurai Armor from the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection by JG Barbier-Mueller

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Title: Art of the Armor - Samurai Armor from the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection
Author: J.Gabriel Barbier-Mueller
Publisher: Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum/Yale University Press, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-300-17636-0
Language: English
Illustrations: Color Pictures
Other: 359 pages, 31.5 cm by 26.5 cm, hardcover
Topics: Abumi, Bagu, Bugu, History, Kabuto, Katchū, Kura, Menpō, Nihontō, Sōmen, Tōsōgu
ID: B0298

Fabulous exhibition collection of one of the best armor collections outside of Japan. This catalog is from 2011, and as the collection itself (traveling all over the world) is still expanding, it is likely that many pieces of the now enlarged collection are not yet in the catalog.

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Seriously impressive.
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Great collection, and we are Ann and Gabriel grateful for their hospitality when we visited the collection in Dallas.
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The best exhibition and collection i saw in Paris years ago
A very good katchu book
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At musee de quai branly...yes indeed!
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