Search Results: the garden lanterns in the katsura palace by niwa tayzaw teizo

Japan: Akira kuni-sha [Not dated, probably 1950/1952]. Japanese text, with a half-page English introduction. Large slender octavo, pp 63, a little used generally, and now VERY weak internally with an internal hinge which is badly broken and just holding on the strings (see illustration), bound in Japanese paper-covered boards with a similar slipcase. RARE. [Immensely useful for its exhaustive listing of every lantern, with photographs and painstakingly detailed measured drawings.]. Boards in slipcase. Fair.