Search for 4 Japanese Art Books to Complete Set of 30 (published 1968)

 

Here is a pic­ture of the 26 vol­umes that I’ve accu­mu­lated (Gen­shoku Nihon no Bijutsu) since pub­li­ca­tion for the Meiji Cen­ten­nial in 1968:

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The four vol­umes I need to com­plete this set are:

  • 8 Emaki­mono
  • 23 Men to Sho Zo
  • 24
  • 26

Long, long ago, when I was going to school at Sophia Uni­ver­sity in Tokyo, the Mon­busho sub­si­dized pub­li­ca­tion of a 30-volume series (Gen­shoku Nihon no Bijutsu pub by Shogakukan). Many of these were fur­ther dis­counted through the book­stores in Jim­bo­cho, where I picked up about 16 of them. 

Each time I vis­ited Tokyo over the years I went through the Jim­bo­cho book­stores, and finally got up to a total of 27 vol­umes.
One of my wife’s bone-headed friends spoiled No. 8 — so I’m back to 26 books.
Now, I’m look­ing for four non-sequential vol­umes to fill out the set of 30.

By the 1990’s the Jim­bo­cho book­stores seemed to have exhausted their sup­ply of these books.  So, even if I vis­ited Jim­bo­cho today, I doubt that I’d find any of this series at all — and very unlikely to find the 4 vol­umes I am seek­ing to com­plete the set.

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