Japan
Subtitle: described and illustrated by the Japanese
By: written by eminent Japanese authorities and scholars ; edited by Captain F. Brinkley with an essay on Japanese art by Kakuzo Okakura
Edition: Imperial ed.
Publisher: J. B. Millet Company
Published: 1897
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: Japanese Art; History; Social life and customs
Notes: Paged continuously.

The greater part of the plates preceded by guard sheet with descriptive text.

Introduction by Arthur J. Mundy.

Each volume is bound in a different decorated cloth.

Limited to 100 numbered copies.

Includes lectures by Okakura, distributed 2 pages to a volume, each having a mounted xylograph print as illustration.

Plates include mounted wood block prints, paintings, collotypes, hand colored photographs, fabric, paintings on silk or velvet.

"The collotype prints of Japanese flowers are made in Tokyo by K. Ogawa. The xylograph prints, illustrating the lecture on Japanese art by K. Okakura ... are printed in Tokyo by the Kokkwa Publishing company ... The silk bindings ... were woven to order in Kyoto by S. Iida ..."--Introd.