The Arts of Honami Koetsu: Japanese Renaissance Master

Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000. Quarto in tan cloth in tan pictorial jacket; illus. (some color); 220 pp., 27 x 30 cm.; jacket is faintly edgeworn, with small closed tear to upper open corner; o/w jacket is clean; cloth is clean and free of fraying; pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks and creases; an almost like new copy. Fine copy in near fine jacket. in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover. ISBN: 087633138X

In English. Contents: The life and arts of Honami Koetsu / Felice Fisher -- Poem cards: Waka and the Kyoto Renaissance / Edwin A. Cranston -- Books: The advent of movable-type printing: the early Keicho period and Kyoto cultural circles / Kyoko Kinoshita -- Handscrolls: The flowering of artistic collaboration / Felice Fischer -- Lacquerware: The Koetsu style in lacquerware / Yamazaki Tsuyoshi -- Takagamine colony: Koetsu at Takagamine / Fumiko E. Cranston -- Teabowls: The teabowls of Honami Koetsu / Saito Takamasa; Koetsu and the history of tea culture / Kamakura Isao; "Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, July 29-October 29, 2000"--Title page verso; with essays and catalogue entries by Edwin A. Cranston [and others].