Japanese Ink-Painting: Lessons in Suiboku Technique

Ryukyu Saito

Published by Charles E. Tuttle Company, Rutland, VT/Tokyo JPN, 1960

About this Item

Charles E. Tuttle Company, Rutland, VT/Tokyo JPN. 1960. Hardcover. Stated 3rd Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light bumping to head and tail; scant shelfwear to boards. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped ($3.75); light edge bumping; scattered closed tears; missing small pieces near head and lower front tip. Decorative Japanese paper over boards and spine; black and red lettering on the spine and front board; ink-painted floral picture on front board. Brown endpapers. 96 pp 8vo oblong. This is a book to teach the beginner the fundamental techniques of suiboku, the unique form of Oriental art that has produced some of the world's finest masterpieces of ink painting. Originating in China and having its spiritual basis in Zen Buddhism, this form of expressing nature's colors through shades of black ink monochrome has been enjoyed for centuries throughout the Orient as a hobby for the amateur. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

Seller Inventory # 013566

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Japanese Ink-Painting: Lessons in Suiboku Technique
• Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle Company, Rutland, VT/Tokyo JPN
• Publication Date: 1960
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 3rd Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • The Far East
  • Art/Music/Motion Pictures/Television
  • Photography/Visual Arts