Hokusai and Hiroshige: Great Japanese Prints from the James A. Michener Collection, Honolulu Academy of Arts

White, Julia M.; Reiko Mochinaga Brandon; Yoko Woodson (Essays by). Hokusai and Hiroshige: Great Japanese Prints from the James A. Michener Collection, Honolulu Academy of Arts. San Francisco: The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1998. First edition. Folio. 270pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over black cloth with silver lettering on spine and front cover. Color frontispiece. This collection of 200 prints, 100 by each artist, is designed to explore Hokusai and Hiroshige’s full range of expression. The selection includes their great landscape series, among them Hokusai’s complete Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, and the unfailing favorite, Hiroshige’s Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road, also in its entirety. In Hokusai’s and Hiroshige’s prints, we see the faces of the new middle class, both the excitement and drudgery of their daily activities, and their favorite views of landmarks and natural wonders. Previous owner’s blind stamp on half-title (Norman Hurst). Dust-jacket, binding and interior in overall very good condition. vg. Hardcover. (34982) $65