Taishoki no yoga : tokubetsuten = Paintings in Taisho Era

Kyoto, Japan: Kyoto-shi Bijutsukan, 1972. Softcover. G+ (Ex-library, few markings, cover has a two-inch tear at bottom of spine, cover has aged, some red checkmarks throughout text, otherwise good.). White illus. wraps, 83 pp., 71 BW & 4 color illus. Majority of the text is in Japanese, with an English introduction and some English titles.Catalog of a 1972 exhibition held at Kyoto-shi Bijutsukan. "We can distinguish the Taisho-era when Japanese oil painting ... broke the academism and sought for new quickening and conversion of Art." (p. 3) This period coincides with the reign of Emperor Taisho from 1912-1926.