Yasuda Yukihiko

Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun Publishing Company, 1971. First Edition. Large Quarto (34cm x 26.5cm). Beige cloth boards (hardcover) with Japanese titling embossed in gold on spine; 70pp + 97 plates; illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelf wear to extremities, else clean and tight. A retrospective volume of the work of Japanese painter Yasuda Yukihiko: a major figure in painting of the Taishō and early Shōwa periods and one of the founders of the nihonga painting technique. 97 color plates, including fold-outs. Predominantly in Japanese; Kawakita Michiaki's text about Yukihiko is also in English.