Description

Trade paperback, small quarto bound in black card covers, lettered in red. 257 pages. Includes a foreword in English and a twenty-five page introductory essay in Japanese; at rear are a list of all photographs present in the catalog and a glossary, printed in both English and Japanese. Illustrated with 5 color and 614 black and white photographs. A special exhibition of Oriental Lacquer Arts held at the Tokyo National Museum, October 8yh — November 23rd, 1977. First edition. Exhibition focusing on Japanese lacquerware from the Jomon period to the Edo period, as well a lacquerware of various regions in Asia influenced by or providing artistic inspiration to Japanese produced pieces. Previous owner’s names on front free blank end-paper. No spine crease. Else a clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine.