Tajima, Shi'ichi (ed)
Shimbi taikan
Selected relics of Japanese art
Selected relics of Japanese art
Kyoto, Nippon Bukkyo Shimbi Kyokwai 1899-1908
841pp; 941 plates (88 col); 49x34cm Stitch-bound paper in cloth folders
Twenty-volume set of illustrations in woodcut and collotype of Buddhist paintings and sculpture with secular paintings from Japan and China. Gilt-edged top and bootom of each volume. All volumes are affected by foxing on collotypes and text but not on the woodcuts. All folders are scuffed and that for volume 5 has external foxing. Text in Japanese and English
