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[Kyoto 1943, Taiga Do]. Purple ribbon tied boards,very clean folio:36.5 x 26 cm., dust jacket in mylar protector,Japanese text, 88+half-tone plates + 30 others of calligraphy,artists signatures & seals, 1 tipped color plate. FIRST EDITION *** *** *** . . FIRST & ONLY LIMITED EDITION OF 500 COPIES . . . SUPERB COLOR EXAMPLES OF ANCIENT JAPANESE ART . . * A beautifully illustrated catalog of the Yamato-E or Japanese style pictures & paintings. . A fine collection of paintings, screens, fans, calligraphy, Buddhist iconographic scrolls, warriors, Nihon-ga [Japanese paintings] & portraits. . Also examples of Buddhist images, precursors to woodblock prints or Ukiyo-e paintings and a host of other images. . Published during World War 2, when Japan's resources were diminishing daily. The allied fire-bombing of Tokyo & Yokohama left few books of from this period. . *. …