Japan : A History in Art. [Archaic period; Asuka period; Nara Period : The golden age of Buddhism; Heian period : Emerging aristocracy; Kamakura period : Seeds of feudalism; Muromachi period; Momoyama period; Edo-Tokugawa period; Meiji period]
by Smith, Bradley, 1910- [Curtis Fields, Baikei Tadashi Suzuki, Daniel Stampler, Madoka Kanai, Shinichi Nagai, Kazuko Yamakawa, Edwin O Reischauer, Yukio Yashiro, Nagatake Asano, Douglas Overton, Marius B Jansen]
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Garden City, NY : A Gemini-Smith Inc. Book, Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964., 1964. Good. 1st printing ; 295 pp. ; color illustrations, color map, color portraits ; 33 cm. ; LCCN: 64-21410 ; LC: N7350; Dewey: 915.2 ; ISBN: 0385032404 ; red cloth with gold lettering in Japanese and English, tattered color pictorial dustjacket ; text in English ; "Japan's history os here projected not only through a brilliant historical narrative, but through an unprecedented array of art treasures newly photographed in color...in Japan's museums, Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines and private collections, including that of the Imperial Household. Most of the 237 works of art have never been seen outside Japan." ; history cover periods up to the then current, Showa, emperor's reign, and avoids the war period in the mid 20th century ; covers have slight wear, a cut to the back panel of the dustjacket does just show on the back cover ; presentation from previous owner on back endpaper ; G/G
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- Joseph Valles - Books (US)
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- Title
- Japan : A History in Art. [Archaic period; Asuka period; Nara Period : The golden age of Buddhism; Heian period : Emerging aristocracy; Kamakura period : Seeds of feudalism; Muromachi period; Momoyama period; Edo-Tokugawa period; Meiji period]
- Author
- Smith, Bradley, 1910- [Curtis Fields, Baikei Tadashi Suzuki, Daniel Stampler, Madoka Kanai, Shinichi Nagai, Kazuko Yamakawa, Edwin O Reischauer, Yukio Yashiro, Nagatake Asano, Douglas Overton, Marius B Jansen]
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- Used - Good
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- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Garden City, NY : A Gemini-Smith Inc. Book, Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964.
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- japan japanese history art sculpture calligraphy painting illustration printing textiles buddhism shinto
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- Catalog 64 - Japan;
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