Traditions of Japanese Art

Selections from the Kimiko and John Powers Collection

Shujiro Shimada

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$25.00 • £21.95 • €22.95

ISBN 9780674901254

Publication Date: 12/31/1970

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393 pages

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The 153 masterworks illustrated here represent major trends in Japanese art from its prehistory to its recent past. Exploring the religious, social, intellectual, and purely aesthetic values that helped to bring them about, John M. Rosenfield and Shūjirō Shimada provide a thorough historical and aesthetic account of each object.

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