5 volumes, each with between 5 and 11 leaves of Japanese text; 90 hand-colored lithographed plates (actually 89 - there are 18 in each part but 15a in the first is a half plate in monochrome). 27.5x39 cm. (10½x15¼"), stitched-bound wrappers with title labels in French and Japanese; chemise (chitsu) which is broken.

Record of Japanese pottery apparently in chronological order from ancient times onward, particularly noteworthy for the use of lithography rather than the usual color woodcuts. Noritane was a founder of the Tokyo Museum and apparently a teacher on the subject to Edward S. Morse; most of the items illustrated here ended up in the Morse collection. Includes the five booklets containing the French text published in Tokyo 1876-78.