Author: CASAL, UGO ALFONS. [Collection].
Title: Casal Collection inro or medicine boxes. / Kazaru korekushon inro.
Description: [Kyoto], Unsodo, 1973. 37,VII pp. [50] unnumbered leaves of plates, each with a tipped-in col. plate (together 200 col. ills on 50 plts). All plates with a protective sheet of Japanese paper with descriptive letterpress. Orig. hardcover (yellowish beige linen). In orig. protective cover (purple brown over boards) with mounted title vignet & closure clasps. Sm. folio. - Top of spine of very sl. bumped; protective cover sl. discol.; one of the clasps missing. Text in Japanese. Title, list of plates and biography on the collector also in English. - Compiled under the supervision of Osaka Municipal Museum of Fine Arts. - - Rare reference work.

Keywords: Asian art Inro Japon Aziatische kunst Japan