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Index To Robert E. Haynes Literary 'Works'

Whither Japanese Sword Fittings (written in 1965)

An Appeal for All To Join in the Serious Study of Sword Fittings (written in 1976)

Facts VS Theory (written in 1988)

Echoes, Enigmas, and Empiricism (written 1993)

Masterpieces (written in 1993)

Pigeonholes Of Mind and Matter (written 1993)

The Sword (written 1993)

The Hosokawa At Kumamoto In Higo (written Dec. 1994)

Nagoya-Mono (written 1994)

Nihon Bijutsu Token to Kodogu (written 1994)

A Sisyphean Labor or Between Scylla and Charybdis (written in 1994, prior to the release of The Index)

The Swords and Tsuba of Bizen Province (written 1994)

Akiyama  Kyusaku  Daishodai  Sensei  (written Jan. 1995)

Europe November 1994 (written Feb. 1995)

The Last 100 Years (written June 1995)

The Hole In Our Perception (written Nov. 1995)

Random Glosses, Tsuba no Hanashi (written 1995)

Random Glosses, Number Two (written 09/1995)

See Dick and Jane (written July 1995)

What I Collect, and Why (written Oct. 1995)

Colloquies Concerning Kaneiye of Fushimi (written Oct./Nov. 1995)

A Visit To Mr. Ishii Masakuni - Tokyo, 1970 (written 1995)

The Tale of Three Tyro (written Feb. 1996)

Interjacence At Thirty-Two (written 06/1997)

Iron Is Hard - Kinko Is Intemperate (written Feb. 1997)

Mythistory: A Collage Of Cliches (written Feb 1997)

Sophistry Supreme (written after 1997)

The Source of Knowledge of Sword Fittings (Part 1 of 2) (written before 1998)

Are Our Primary Sources Still Valid? (Part 2 of 2) (written before 1998)

Beyond The Available Knowledge (written 02/15/1998)

The Kata of Kodogu (written 03/1998)

Katchushi to Tosho, By Any Other Name.... (written 02/19/1998)

Re-Evaluating Recent Writing (written in 1998)

Japanese Sword History, The First 1000 Years, An Outline (written 1998-99)

The Magnum Opus (written after 2001)

From Abe to Zuiyo (written 2002)

Every Forty Years or What I Did On My Summer Vacation (written in 2002)

The Joi and Toshinaga Problems (written 2002)

You Should Have Asked Me That Question Twenty Years Ago! (written in 2002?)

The NBTHK - A Short History (written Feb. 2002)

The Russians Are Coming...The Russians Are Coming (written in 2002)

The Conscience of The Collector (written in 2002)

A Rare Kamiyoshi Fukanobu Signature (written April 2003)

Lies My Teachers Taught Me (written in 2003)

Yagyu Tsuba (written in 2003)

The Answer Is Not In Japan (written May 2004)

My First Sixty Years As A Student of Kodogu (written May 2005)

Trophy Tsuba (written May 2005)

The Sensei Syndrome (written May 2005)

The Decline and Fall of The Study of Japanese Sword Fittings (written May 2005)

The Price Of Nadakai (written July 2011)

Three Years And Two Thousand Sword Fittings Later

The Dearth Of Ken

The Captivation of Coequal Collecting

Remembrance of C. H. Lundgren

The Lundgren Auction

Observations by Graham Curtis following "The Lundgren Auction" (by R. E. Haynes)

Makoto-Ni Arigato Graham Curtis

THE ALEXANDER G. MOSLE JOSHU KANEIE TSUBA

THE M. ARTHUR KAY SUGIURA JOI TSUBA (Published Mar-April, 2015 JSSUS)

A Tsuba Signed: 'BUSHU EDO JU YASUCHIKA & Kao' (Published Jan-Feb, 2016 JSSUS)

BECAUSE I SAID SO
AND
OTHER MENDACIOUS PREDILECTIONS

Index To Elliott D. Long Literary 'Works'

The Japanese Metal Artist (Published Nov.17 To-Ron)

The Question of Authenticity (Published Nov-Dec JSSUS)

What Makes A Collector? (Published May-June JSSUS, Sept. 21 To-Ron)

How To Collect Tsuba Like An Expert

Mastering The Asthetic Quality of IRON (Published Nov-Dec, 2014 JSSUS)

Why Japanese Tsuba

The EXPERT   or   "A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."

Caveat Emptor

'HARUSADA' Defines Wabi & Sabi

What Will Japanese Fitting Collecting Be Like In The Future?

A Collaboration of Robert E. Haynes and Elliott D. Long