Hardcover volume, 35 x 27 cm, bound in grey cloth, blind stamped characters to front, brown characters to spine, in a glassine dust jacket, in a double slipcase, the outer case pictorial paper over cardboard, 36 x 28 cm, pp.: [4] [1] 2-124 (plates with photographs of 241 items), [2] 127-171 [3].

Kyō ware [京焼] (Kyō-yaki) – pottery from Kyoto.

日本の陶磁 – Japanese ceramics, series title.

Contributors:

Yasunari Kawabata [川端 康成] (Japanese, 1924 – 1972) – author.

Tetsuzo Tanikawa [谷川 徹三] (Japanese, 1895 – 1989) – author.

Seizo Hayashiya [林屋晴三] (Japanese, 1928 – 2017) – editor.

Chūōkōron-sha [中央公論社] – publisher.