The Gotoh Museum Collection: Aspects of Japanese Beauty

35.5x30.5cm. English language first edition. Limited to 1000 copies, this #96. The museum collection of Japanese art discussed from the perspectives of Literature's Ties to Art, The Writing Brush and Ink, Beauty in the Asymmetrical, and The Search for the Eternal. pp127(1) with numerous illustrations including many large scale in colour, and index of selected terms; decorative endpapers. Fine silk binding of Arisugawa-gire from the Shosoin pattern and produced by Tatsumura Company, Kyoto; titles on paper label at backstrip and on paper inlay on front cover. No dust jacket as issued. BOOK ONLY, in FINE condition. Missing timeline booklet, reproduction print, slipcase, and original shipping box. (Heavy item, overseas shipping at cost.).