Twelve centuries of Japanese art from the Imperial collections : essays

Twelve centuries of Japanese art from the Imperial collections : essays /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
Other authors / contributors:	Hirabayashi, Moritoku, 1933-, Miyajima, Shinʾichi, Ōkuma, Toshiyuki, Ōhta, Aya
Imprint:	[Japan] : Washington, D.C. : Imperial Household Agency ; Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, c1997.
Format:	Book
Language:	English Japanese
Subjects:	Japan. > Kunaichō > Art collections. Emperors > Japan. Art and state > Japan > History. Calligraphy, Japanese. Painting, Japanese.

Table of Contents:

Emperors as artists and cultural leaders / Miyajima Shinʾichi
Calligraphy : the Imperial Collection and its masterworks in historical context / Hirabayashi Moritoku
Tradition and transmission of imperial culture in the early modern period : the collection of the former Katsuranomiya Family / Ohta Aya
Reassessing historical role : the imperial househould and the Imperial Household Ministry and modern Japanese art / Okuma Toshiyuki.