The Tadamasa Hayashi Tsuba Collection
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Originally published in French now in an English translation: "CATALOGUE of the COLLECTION JAPANESE SWORD-GUARDS" Louvre Museum, gift of Mr. Tadamasa Hayashi - 1894. Combined with "A CHRONOLOGICAL COLLECTION OF ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY FOUR SABER GUARDS [TSUBA] FROM THE 10TH TO THE 18TH CENTURY" - Dating from 1902. This combined edition holds a large number of tsuba images and some background information on the periods in which they were made.
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