Yoshio Tsuchiya, A Feast for the Eyes: The Japanese Art of Food Arrangement, 1985, HC, Near Fine

Tsuchiya, Yoshio. Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., 1985.

English, US Edition, Near Fine, HC, Folio, 9 ⅛” x 12 ⅛,” 165 pp.

ISBN: 0870117181

Dark purple woven cloth over boards, green stamped titling to spine, white endpapers and pastedowns, in publisher’s dust jacket with full-color pictorial wrap, black and red text to front and spine, black text to cream inside gate flaps. Very minor sunning to top edge, very minor edgewear, very minor shelfwear, otherwise clean, tightly bound, and excellent. In a Very Good dust jacket now protected in a Mylar sleeve. Very minor sunning to top edge, mild shelfwear, very minor soiling to front and back, very minor bumping to head and tail of spine, very minor edgewear, otherwise very good. 165 pp. Replete with full-color and black-and-white images. Food arrangement by Masaru Yamamoto. Through in-depth text, photographic examples, and illustrations, readers are taken on a start-to-finish journey through the art of Japanese food arrangement, including various styles and dishware. Historical context illuminates how this art form developed. From the dust jacket: “This Japanese approach to food is a true art, the highest accomplishment of which, admittedly, is a notch short of impossible…This art is neither precious nor inscrutable, but a way of greatly multiplying one’s pleasure–one’s presence–in the simple, creative, and universal act of eating.”