Sesshu (1420-1506)

Long scroll of landscape. [From cover.]

[Japan, 1950s?]. A fine collotype facsimile of a great Japanese treasure. Orihon binding (accordion-style) with 63 leaves printed one side only. Four leaves of text + captions in Japanese and English. Dark green cloth covers with paper label in a dark brown folding cloth case with clasps and the same paper label. Leaf size: about 27.5 x 22 cm, so the total length unfolded is nearly 14 meters. OCLC records two copies that probably are this book, at UC Berkeley and Mills College. Berkeley supplies publishing data: Tokyo: Tanaka Genjiro, 1957. Near fine. Item #29051

Price: $500.00