Masterpieces of Japanese Puppetry: Sculptured Heads of the Bunraku Theater

Rutland, Vermont / Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1958. first edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth with red paper front board. Color illustrated dust jacket. 91 pp. BW illustrations and tipped in color plates. Good+, clean and tight contents. Ex-lib., however, with expected marks. DJ is worn, chipped at edges, and a bit shelf-soiled. Flaps are glued to end papers of book. Item #134007

Copy No. 43 of 375 copies. English edition of "Banraku Kashira no Meisaku". Translated by Roy Andrew Miller. Showing 35 full-color plates, annotated, of Bunraku puppet heads, named by character, as well as several helpful bw images. With a foreword by the translator and a lengthy general essay on the masks and the Bunraku theater. Quite an intruguing book.

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