Mitsuya, Yasuno - Tsuwano

Tokyo, Japan, Iwasaki Shoten, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, bound in oblong format, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Handsomely bound in vanilla cloth, illustrated to front cover, Japanese characters to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear beyond a bit of waviness and short loss of paper to rear board, not price-clipped. "Yasuno Mitsuya (1926.3.20 - 2020.12.24) born in Tsuwano-cho, Shimane Prefecture, Honshu, graduated from Yamaguchi Normal School Graduate School), is Japan's most famous picture book writer internationally. Science, mathematics, humanities, architecture, music, movies, combining art and science into a humorous visual game; 'I like to think differently since I was a child, I like to look at the telescope upside down, and the habit of "fantasy"': showing a keen imagination and meticulousness. His logical reasoning ability creates a combination of intellectuality and poetry, so that he can always use a humorous visual style to draw a painting game that may be incomprehensible on the plane, full of childlike 'Yanno style.' He also claimed to be a "fantasy criminal" and named his creative base 'Fantasy Study.' 'However, I like to discover new things, not to visit some historical sites.' In 1964, he carried US$800 to Europe, where he longed for, and in 1977, he launched his own landscape painting series, 'Journey of Picture Books'� (from the Min dot News web-site). 63 pp. Japanese text.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Near Fine,

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