Extraordinary Persons: Works by Eccentric, Nonconformist Japanese Artists of the Early Modern Era (1580-1868) in the Collection of Kimiko and

by John M. Rosenfield

The Powers Collection, formed with the assistance of leading Japanese scholars, is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the West and includes works by such outstanding painters as Yosa Buson, Ike no Taiga, and Uragami Gyokudo and literary figures such as novelist Ihara Saikaku and poet Matsuo Basho.This new catalogue is the result of studies of the collection undertaken for nearly thirty years by Harvard University faculty and students under...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1891771000
• ISBN13: 9781891771002
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 3 Pages
• Weight: 10.70 lbs.