National Museum, Tokyo (Great museums of the world) Hardcover. (B12)

National Museum, Tokyo (Great museums of the world) Hardcover, 1969 The National Museum, Tokyo, contains the finest and most extensive collection of Japanese art in the world. The quality and extent of its collections are without parallel. In addition, it contains Chinese works which, although not great in number, are of extraordinary quality. There are, in all, some 90,000 objects in the museum, representing every known period and medium from prehistoric times to the beginning of the modern era. Thus a panoramic view is created of the entire development of Japanese art and its frequent interrelation with that of China. With its 126 specially photographed colour plates, this book is a magnificent cross-section of this astonishingly rich storehouse of oriental art. We see here the wonderful stone Buddha heads, amphoras and vases of the T'ang and Ming dynasties and the wonderful examples of calligraphy - sister art of Far-Eastern painting. Here too are the superb bronzes, sculptures, ceramics, lacquers, textiles and archaeological treasures. All the great periods of Japanese painting are represented, from the religious works of the Heian period to the illustrated scrolls of the Kamakura period, the monochrome ink paintings of the Muromachi period, the dazzling colours of the Momoyama silk screens, the poetic depictions of daily life in the Edo period, including works by the famous and incredibly prolific Hokusai. I have used a generic ISBN as one was not issued with this publication.