Masterworks of Japanese Art

based on the definitive six volume Pageant of Japanese Art edited by staff members of the Tokyo National Museum

Charles S. Terry 

1958 First Edition.  Charles E. Tuttle Company, Tokyo 

Quarto.  Black letters and cover art embossed on full tan buckram in FINE condition in a like Brodart protected dust jacket.  Colored endpapers.  pp. x, [1], 252.  List of Plates.  List of Illustrations.  An authoritative selection of the more significant works representative of the achievements of Japanese artists, including some of the famous woodblock prints that had a great influence on the nineteenth century French artists.  135 splendid illustrations.  One hundred are full-page photos, forty are in color, tipped-in, with tissue guards, and sixty are gravure.  Index.