Hardcover volume, 35 x 26.8 cm, bound in grey cloth, blind stamped characters to front, brown characters to spine, in a slipcase, the outer case missing, pp.: [4] [1] 2-136 (plates with photographs of 211 items), [2] 139-166 [4].

Kutani ware [九谷焼] (Kutani-yaki); old kutani [古九谷] (kokutani) – ceramic objects produced in Kutani in the 17th century.

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.