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Japan; described and illustrated by the Japanese / written by eminent Japanese authorities and scholars; ed. by Captain F. Brinkley ... with an essay on Japanese art by Kakuzo Okakura.
LIBRA - Rare Book Collection Storage Folio DS809 .B87 v.1-10
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--Japan.
- Art.
- Japan.
- Japan--History.
- History.
- Japan--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 10 volumes : color illustrations, color plates. ; 41 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, J.B. Millet : [c1897-1898]
- Notes:
- Title vignettes; initials; head and tail pieces.
- Paged continuously. Printed on double leaves.
- Introduction by Arthur J. Mundy.
- The greater part of the plates preceded by guard sheet with descriptive text.
- The Imperial Japanese paper on which the text is printed comes from Tokyo. The collotype prints of Japanese flowers are made in Tokyo by K. Ogawa. The xylograph prints, illustrating the lecture on Japanese art by K. Okakura... are printed in Tokyo by the Kokkwa Publishing Company.
- The photographs are all made and colored by hand in Japan... The special works of art such as the water colors of animals and flowers have been painted and signed by native artists... The silk bindings for the ten sections were woven to order in Kyoto by S. Iida.
- Local Notes:
- Some plates have been cut out of RBC Storage copy.
- OCLC:
- 231219
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