1st Edition
Mabuchi: William Anderson: The Pictorial Arts of Japan WESTERN SOURCES ON JAPANESE ART AND JAPONISM, SERIES 4
Edited By Aiko Mabuchi
Copyright 2008
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William Anderson (1842–1900) was a Scottish surgeon who lived in Tokyo in the early Meiji period. He also served as the first chairman of the Japan Society. He is now best remembered as a collector of Japanese art (his collection formed the basis of both the Japanese department of the British Museum and the illustrated book collection at the British Library), as well as the author of the landmark... Read more
Volume 1
The Pictorial Arts of Japan with a Brief Historical Sketch of the Associated Arts, and Some Remarks upon the Pictorial Art of the Chinese and Koreans (London: L. Lowe, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886) (c. 650pp.)
Volume 2
Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of a Collection of Japanese and Chinese Paintings in the British Museum (London: Longmans & Co., 1886) (c. 660pp.)
Volume 3
Nihon Bijyutu Zensho (Japanese edition of Anderson’s Pictorial Art of Japan by Kencho Suematsu) (Tokyo: Yao Shoten, 1896–7) (c. 650pp.)
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Edited By Aiko Mabuchi
