The Uninhibited Brush: Japanese Art in the Shijō Style
London: 1974. Limited Edition - Only 1000 copies printed. More
London: 1974. Limited Edition - Only 1000 copies printed. More
Harvard University Art Museums, 1998. HB. More
University of Washington Press, 2011. Recognized in Japan as a connoisseur, collector, and proprietor of a famous folk art shop in Tokyo, Tawara Yusaku returned to painting late in life and had a single show in London before his death in 2004. Universe Is Flux is the first examination of..... More
Cambridge University Press, 1996. Hardcover. Ink plum (momei) has been one of the most admired and widely practised genres of ink painting in China, Japan and Korea throughout the last six hundred years. In this study, the first full account of momei, Maggie Bickford provides a comprehensive account of genre-formation..... More
Sylph Editions, 2017. Limited edition of 300. Crags and Ravines Make a Marvellous View is a groundbreaking art publication exploring classical Chinese culture through an extraordinary scroll painting, Ten Views of a Lingbi Rock, by the 17th-century master Wu Bin. The special collector’s edition, limited to 300 numbered copies..... More
Translated by Robert T. Singer 10.25 x 14.5", 33 pages of English essay and list of plates, 350 pages of Japanese text and 148 color plates, 58 monochrome plates, captions in Japanese and English, cloth, blue cloth slipcase, Kyoto, 1984. (o.p.; stamped gilt characters and lettering on spine/front cover..... More
Taipei: National Palace Museum Taipei, 2017. 8.2 x 11.6",1.2kg,xxxii,179 pp., color plates, texts in Chinese with English foreword and captions, paper cover. This special exhibition features 35 works that serve as historical traces of the veneration for Confucianism since the Han dynasty. Divided into four sections: “Portraits of the Sage”..... More
Japanese Masterworks offers a survey of Japanese painting spanning 600 years (the 1300s to early 1900s) and including almost all of the major genres and styles. Especially important are paintings -- hanging scrolls and folding screens -- by many of the best-known artists of the Edo period (1615-1868). The..... More
Kyoto: Kyoto National Museum, 2017. 9 x 12", xii, 348 pp., 76 select items illustrated in color, some fold outs, some b/w illustrations, text in Japanese, foreword, section introduction and list of works in English, paper, Kyoto, 2017. Kaiho Yusho is renowned as one of the most eminent painters of..... More
Chronicle Books, 1987. HB. The Japanese crane, a most auspicious symbol in Japan, has figured importantly in Japanese culture and art since ancient times, appearing over the centuries in almost every possible medium as a universal sign of goodwill. The title "A Thousand Cranes" is a metaphor for the spiritual..... More
Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2006. SC. Varied representations depicting the major schools of Japanese Buddhism. More