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JAPANESE ART SIGNATURES: A Handbook and Practical Guide.

      A SUPERB GUIDE TO READING JAPANESE ARTISAN'S NAMES New York 2003, Floating World. Stiff wrs., very good, 399p., index, bibliography, classification, comments, radical index with woodblock print censor seal index, province list, reprint of the First London Edition of 1987. A valuable reference source for any collector or student of Japanese arts: paintings, woodblock prints, Netsuke, lacquer Inro, swords, or other any form of Japanese handicraft work. Comprehensive & authoritative, easy-to-use research aid for reading Japanese art signatures. The simplified approach, enables the reader to translate signatures with ease. Co- author was Nobuko Hirose. With Kaisho character dictionary. This book has become exceptionally rare & is in much demand by collectors of several Japanese arts. A most useful work ! EXCEPTIONALLY RARE. Color scans can be sent by email.Images displayed may not be the actual copy in stock for sale at any given time; if you want to see the exact image of the book or edition in stock, please request this by email and an image will be returned to you by attachment. !! WARNING: The above description is COPYRIGHT protected material under United States & International Copyright & Intellectual property laws. Unauthorized copying or use of ANY PART is a felony and will be PROSECUTED TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW !!! The entire text and contents of this description is Copyright protected 2002-2008 Rare Oriental Book Co.