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Hoikusha Publishing Co., Published 1978. Paperback, 132 pp.; 15 cm; Hoikusha Color Books No. 24 (English edition), fifth edition (first published 1971), translated by Don Kenny; illustrated throughout with color and black-and-white reproductions of the artist's ink paintings; book code 0171-540024-7700.
In Very Good condition. Small illustrated paper covers (cream front with one of the artist's mountain landscapes in ink and color, plain pale green rear) with mild shelf wear to surfaces and edges. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Pocket volume of ink paintings by Uchiyama Ukai (1907-1983), the painter and calligrapher whose teaching Kay Morrissey Thompson set down for Tuttle in The Art and Technique of Sumi-e (1960); his lithographs are held by the National Gallery of Art (Rosenwald Collection) and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Nearly a hundred paintings, each with the artist's own note on the place, the season, or the problem of the brush: landscapes from Hokkaido to Kyushu, flowers, fruit, fish and animals, scenes from Chartres, Montmartre, the Rhine and the Neckar, and calligraphic character pieces. A 34-page text section covers his background, tools, brush and line texture, the sparing use of color, and his view of present-day ink painting. Contents: Landscape; Flower; Animal; Foreign Country; Character; Text (Introduction; Personality; Necessary Tools; Techniques; Today's Ink Painting).