Emaki: Japanese Picture Scrolls.
Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle:, 1962. 241 pp. Illus. with 12 laid -in color plates and 104 b/w illus. 4to. Cloth. First edition. A very good ex-lib copy in very good dust jacket. Arntzen M576. Item #15465
An abbreviated English translation of the 1957 Tokyo Japanese edition. "A series of color plates followed by text tracing the development of emakimono from the 8th through the 12th and 13th centuries. 'Explanation of the thirty principal emaki' gives brief notes on 30 of the most important scrolls in chronological order. 'List of emaki and their English titles' includes almost all extant scrolls, with dates, collections, and attributions," (Arntzen p. 350).
Price: $50.00
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