Author: (Meech-Pekarik, Julia; Kenney, James T.). Utamaro, Kitagawa.
Title: Utamaro: A Chorus of Birds.
Description: New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; A Studio Book - The Viking Press, (1981). (1981). - Small quarto, 10-1/8 inches high by 7-3/4 inches wide. Light green cloth with a printed title label on the front cover, in the original tan slipcase with a pictorial title label. The slipcase is slightly stained. 49 pages bound in accordion-fold illustrated with 15 double-page color illustrations of Kitagawa Utamoro's Japanese paintings of birds, and textual illustrations. Near fine in a very good slipcase.

Exhibition catalog for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition of Utamaro's paintings with an introduction by Julia Meech-Pekarik, Associate Curator of Fat-Eastern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and a Note on kyoka and translations by James T. Kenney, Assistant Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, University of Massachusetts, Boston. Very good .

Keywords: ART; ILLUSTRATED; UTAMARO: A CHORUS OF BIRDS; KITAGAWA UTAMARO; JAPANESE PAINTINGS; NATURE; ILLUSTRATIONS; THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART; ACCORDION FOLD; A STUDIO BOOK; THE VIKING PRESS; DOUBLE-PAGE COLOR PLATES; JULIA MEECH-PEKARIK; JAMES T. KENNEY; EXH

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