Hardcover volume from the series Masterworks of ukiyo-e, 26.5 x 19 cm, bound in unprimed canvas, red ms characters on black strip to front, red and black lettering to spine, tan embossed endpapers, in a pictorial slipcase with series design (black lettering on silver spine); pp: [1-6]: h.t./frontis. (colour plate pasted in), t.p./imprint, contents/acknowledgements), 7-31 text, [32] blank, 33-96 (76 plates w/captions).

Title-page (in frame): MASTERWORKS OF UKIYO-E | UTAMARO | by Muneshige Narazaki and Sadao Kikuchi | Translated by John Bester | {publisher’s device} | KODANSHA INTERNATIONAL LTD. | Tokyo, Japan & Palo-Alto, Calif., U.S.A | {vertical, between rules 歌麿} ||

Series: Masterworks of ukiyo-e, № 4.

Contributors:

Muneshige Narazaki [楢崎 宗重] (Japanese, 1904 – 2001) – author.

Sadao Kikuchi [菊地 貞雄] (Japanese, 1924 – 2017) – author.

John Bester (British, 1927 – 2010) – translator.

Kitagawa Utamaro [喜多川 歌麿] (Japanese, c. 1753 – 1806) – artist.