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In Japan : pilgrimages to the shrines of art

Migeon, Gaston, 1861-1930 · 1908 · London : W. Heinemann · 4 pictures

Gaston Migeon's 1908 travel book In Japan, published in London by W. Heinemann, is a guide to Japanese art sites written for Western readers. The four plates are rotated black-and-white halftone photographs of temple sculptures, a painted Buddhist wall, and a distant city view, offering a designer examples of carved wooden guardian figures, draped robes and Buddhist iconography in sepia tones.

Art, Japanese · Description and travel · Japan -- Description and travel

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