Japanese Netsuke: Serious Art

Outstanding Works Selected from American Collections

1989
152 pages; 66 colour plates
£50 + shipping

The first of our consistently high quality "mission to explain" trilogy of hardback netsuke publications, illustrating each of its 66 works with between two and six full colour photographs, from every useful angle; a total of 145 colour illustrations and an educative, entertaining text. This and the next two netsuke catalogues ("Zodiac Beasts" and "Remarkable Netsuke") each feature a character glossary / index, a select bibliography and a map of feudal Japan.