Two Volumes. Volume I, Pictorial Art, with seven full-page woodblock prints after Gogyo, Hokusai, Gekko and others; two color prints on tissue after textile designs, and color woodcut and other illustrations throughout. There is also a two-page signature key in English and Japanese. Volume II, Applied Art, with three original watercolors of ceramics; 34 half-tone illustrations, seven mounted full-page including some of Buddhist sculpture and architecture. 14¾x11½, pictorial silk-covered boards, ribbon tied.
The large woodblock prints, textile designs, watercolors and full-page photographs are all mounted and bound in on linen tabs. A lavish production introducing an American audience to Japanese ukiyo-e, painting, sculpture, temple art, ceramics, netsuke, ivories, inro, metalware, etc.
Condition:
Covers loose and worn with loss and fraying to edges; about half the illustrations offset; mount of first woodblock print cracked; all woodblocks with mounts covering the edges; a few leaves with pale marginal dampstain. Still, in overall very good condition.