Hardcover volume, 35.1 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 27.8 cm, pp.: [4] [1] 2-108 (plates with photographs of 217 items), [2] [111] 112-150 [3].

Imari ware [伊万里焼] (Imari-yaki) – ceramics produced in and around the area of Arita, in the former Hizen Province, northwestern Kyūshū.

日本の陶磁 – Japanese ceramics, series title.

Old imari [古伊万里] (koimari) – book 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.