Tokyo: Shogakkan (Shougakukan, Shogakukan). Folio, 14 1/4" x 10" , 251 pp. Profusely illustrated with plates and gatefolds. Text in Japanese, with English translation for list of plates. Cloth, pictorial jacket, pictorial slipcase. Book is in fine condition, jacket in sharp near fine; slipcase shows some soiling and edgewear, is very good. Number 14 in Shogakkan's deluxe and comprehensive - and oversized - 30-volume series, Genshoku Nihon no Bijutsu, treating the primary colors of Japanese art. This volume focuses on the work of Sotatsu and Korin (Soutatsu and Kourin), and includes 172 pages illustrating 138 works of art, followed by a section illustrating the artists' personal seals and signatures, then the standard in-depth text section (in Japanese) with black and white illustrations. Bear in mind that this book reads in traditional Japanese format, starting from what we in the west would call the back of the book, so the text portion, to a westerner, is at the "front". Beautiful, l