B721.  Kurihara Hikosaburo Akihide Zen Kiroku: Nihonto Nichido Yomigaeraseta Otoko by Tsuchika Tameo.  2000.  Hardbound with dust jacket, 7 1/2 x 10 1/2″, 368 pages in Japanese.  Inscribed by the author.  This is a biography of Kurihara Hikosaburo Akihide; the subtitle of the book translates as, “The man who twice saved the Japanese sword.”