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Hawley's Japanese Swordsmiths
by W.M. Hawley
In celebration of the centenary of Willis M. Hawley: Orientalist, Collector, Author 1896-1987, the Library of W.M. Hawley presents this edited Commemorative Edition.
Limited Issue 2-Volume boxed set, 1050 pages, 8 1/2 x 11 softcover.
A compilation of over 30,000 Japanese Swordsmiths’ names - where and when they worked and how they signed, Kanji and Romanization of names and signatures, with a relative value rating of their work.
Also includes:
- A quick reference section on terminology
- File marks
- Temperlines
- Tang shapes
- The Kanji of inscriptions
- Provinces
- Honorary titles
- Year names
- Map of schools
- Goban Kaji secret signs
Volume I: A-N
Volume II: N-Z
1050 pages in two volumes.
Softcover
ISBN: 0-910704-90-2
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