Traditions of Japanese Art
Selections from the Kimiko and John Powers Collection
John M. Rosenfield and Shujiro Shimada (eds.)
Harvard University Press, 1970
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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