Title Kubikiri Asaemon Token Oshigata
Author Suiken Fukunaga
Tameshigiri is transleted as cutting test.It is not too much to say that the essence of Japanese Sword lies in the sharpness of the blade.This tameshigiri has been done by Yamada Family,usually called Kubikiri Asaemon,from generation to generation in Edo period.This book contains interesting or valuable documents selected carefully from among a lot of ones(entitled "Token Oshigata") owned by Yamada Family.It includes approx 460 (10 plates-color)plates in it.According to the narrow book wrapper,when the first volume was published,orders rushed.
Unfortunately,this item is becoming hard-to-come by here in Japan.
