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Emakimono: The Art of the Japanese Painted Hand-Scroll

by Dietrich Seckel, Akihisa Hasé, J. Brownjohn Maxwell. 242 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Dietrich Seckel, Akihisa Hasé, J. Brownjohn Maxwell

Publisher:

   Pantheon Books

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1959
Subjects:   Painting, Japanese, Scrolls, Japanese, Narrative Painting--Japan
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Emakimono: The Art of the Japanese Painted Hand-Scroll
Book by Akihisa Hasé, J. Maxwell Brownjohn, Dietrich Seckel; Pantheon Books, 1959
Subjects: Narrative Painting--Japan, Painting, Japanese, Scrolls, Japanese
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Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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