This book gives you a guided tour through Japan's flagship museum without leaving your chair. From the roughly 120,000 objects held by the Tokyo National Museum, about 150 of the finest have been selected and photographed anew, and the result is a volume that lets you sit with each treasure and take in its particular presence.
Some 300 photographs by Tomohiro Muda carry the book. The sequence opens with a foreword, then moves through 200 pages of Japanese art before turning to Asian art, and closes with a detailed list of works. Across 312 pages you encounter the range the museum is known for, arranged so that the objects unfold at a viewing pace rather than a reference pace.
This is the English edition of the Japanese original, so all text and captions are in English. If you have visited the museum and wanted more than the galleries could show at once, or if you are building a shelf on Japanese and East Asian art, this is the kind of book you return to rather than consult once.
Published by Bookend Publishing. Brand new, 2020 publication.
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