The Arts of Japan: Ancient and Medieval (Volume 1 and 2)
by Noma, Seiroku
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0870110187
- ISBN 13
- 9780870110184
- Seller
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1972. Two folio hardcovers, 236pp., & 229pp tipped in colour & b&w illustrations and full page maps. Black cloth boards with gilt decoration and lettering on spine with red upper board lettering in Japanese, red headbands and endpaper maps; tissue guards over some coloured images. This comprehensive survey of Japanese art begins in prehistoric times and surveys the decorative and folk arts - from sculpture, painting, architecture, garden design, ceramics, lacquerware, textiles to swords. Vol. 2 covers: castle architecture the image of authority.Accoutrements of banquet society, public pleasures, further developments in military arts. Light edgewear to djs. Text clean. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.
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- Bookseller
- DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011385
- Title
- The Arts of Japan: Ancient and Medieval (Volume 1 and 2)
- Author
- Noma, Seiroku
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0870110187
- ISBN 13
- 9780870110184
- Publisher
- Kodansha Amer Inc
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo, Japan
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- Japan, Arts
- Bookseller catalogs
- Japan;
- Size
- Folio - over 12" - 15"
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About the Seller
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