Author: Impey, Oliver (Foreword)
Title: Early Arita and Ko-Kutani. [with English summary by Yoshihiro Imaizumi]
Description: Tokyo, 1974. Original silk-covered boards (hardcover) housed in decorated cloth-covered cardboard slipcase, 30,3 x 21,5 cms., 494 pp. text in Japanese and summary in English, throughout illustrated with 212 illustrations, partly in colour, including a woodcut (?), in original gilt cloth-covered slipcase, summarised and translated by Yoshihiro Imaizumi; Kutani ware (Kutani-yaki) is a style of Japanese porcelain traditionally supposed to be from Kutani. Extremely rare. Fine book production. *Kutani ware (Kutani-yaki) is a style of Japanese porcelain traditionally supposed to be from Kutani, now a part of Kaga, Ishikawa, in the former Kaga Province. Arita ware is a broad term for Japanese porcelain made in the area around the town of Arita, in the former Hizen Province, northwestern Kyushu island.

Keywords: General art; Arts of Asia