Author: MAITRE, CL.=E.,
Title: L'Art du Yamato. [Separated from:Revue de l'Art Ancien et Moderne]. [First edition, thus].
Description: Paris, Librairie de l'Art Ancien et Moderne, [circa], 1935. Small folio. Original wrappers. Front cover title in bold green type. Hftitle (verso with provenance). Large decorative device on ti.-p., repeated on lower outer cover. 43pp. 8 fine captioned monochrome plates with tissue-guards, featuring the Grand Buddha at Kamakura, Gods and Goddesses, worldly statues, double-page plan with extensive legenda at tail, featuring the Galleries of Kon-dô Tô (Pagoda). Daï-Kô-Dô (Temple), etc., many captioned illustrations in text featuring other works of art, french languate information about Yamato art on first unnumbered page printed within a broad decorative floral borderextensive footnotes and refrences. Limited and numbered edition of 200 copies only, this copy bears nr. 95 (provenance on verso of french title). Ample illustrated french language cultural-historic survey of Yamato-e, is a style of Japanese painting inspired by T'ang Dynasty paintings and fully developed by the late Heian period. It is considered as the classical Japanese style. Good untrimmed copy. (hftitle foxed, occasional foxing to margins, mainly of versos of plates, spine with a modern cloth strip, all in all a reasonable copy of a rare work).

Keywords: fine art yamato-e tang heian period classical painting culture heritage legacy asia fareast limitededition