Gakko hitsuyo irozu mondo.

1880. IEHARA, Masanori and Kan'ichiro SHIOZU. Gakko hitsuyo irozu mondo. [2], 40, [2] pp. on 22 double folded leaves, illustrated with two hand-coloured charts and small hand-coloured squares throughout the text. 8vo, 210 x 150 mm., bound in publisher's wrappers with title label. Kyoto: Wakabayashi Kisuke, 1876 [Meiji 9]. This is most probably the first textbook of Western colour theory printed in Japan for Japanese students. It is almost surely based on European models, but since it is a nineteenth-century Japanese book, it possesses a rather unique charm. OCLC lists only the Huntington Library in the U.S. The Book of Colour Concepts 740.