Genshoku Nihon No Bijutsu. Volume 1: Genshi Bijutsu, Primitive Art

Tadashi Saïto and Itsuji Yoshikawa. Shogakukan, 1970

A particularly attractive copy bound in tall, heavy quarto format of Genshoku Nihon No Bijutsu. Volume 1: Genshi Bijutsu, Primitive Art, the inaugural volume in the series published in Tokyo in 1970. Compiled by Tadashi Saïto and Itsuji Yoshikawa. Bound quite handsomely in decorated fine polka-dotted paper over boards, gilt-ruled near spine, clean, unmarked, not ex-library, and neither highlighting nor underlining. Price-clipped dust jacket and in a Bro-dart jacket, paper-backed. Japanese language texts and replete with Kanji characters, too. Black-and-white, duotone and marvelous full-color illustrations, including full-page. [8], 9-238 [3] pp.