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New York : Kodansha USA Inc. Volume 2 only. Profusely illustrated in color. All captions in Japanese and English. Includes English language supplement. Housed in very good+, titled slipcase. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1988.

Tokyo, Kodanska,1988-1991. Elephant folio, in brown cloth binding, on the front blind stamped Japanese characters and on the spine gilt stamped characters. All volumes are cased in a pale silk clamshell, with the english and japanese title gilt stamped on the front and spine. All volumes in the original cardboard box, with a printed title. Japanese woodblock prints and paintings came at first to Europe via the Dutch tJapanese woodblock prints and paintings came at first to Europe via the Dutch trading base on the islang Dejima trading base on the island Dejima. They had considerable influence on painters as Van Gogh and Manet. The prints were so popular that there are at least as many prints in Europe as in Japan. This books represent the outstanding collection of eight museums, a standard reference work. 90 percent of the prints have not been published before. Each volume has 250 coloured illustrations of which 80 are full-page plates and some of them fold outs. The text on the pages of the… Read More