Book Review: Kōrō yadan: Tōsei gusoku no kumi himo by Asajirō Morita

[Jo Anseeuw]

Title: Kōrō yadan: Tōsei gusoku no kumi himo
Author: Asajirō Morita
Publisher: Asajirō Morita, 1986
Language: Japanese
Illustrations: Color Pictures
Other: 29 pages, 30 cm by 21.5 cm, hardcover
Topics: Katchū
ID: B0307

This is a very rare manuscript of Asajirō Morita, one of the great post-edo armor maker, about the cords used in armours, mainly tōsei gusoku. It contains 77 color pictures of cord-remains from Nambokucho onwards, with his comments.

The same content was one year later bundled with 5 articles Mr. Morita wrote in the magazine of the armor society (will be reviewed later).