various authors - Momoyama - 1996-1997

1) The age of gold, the days of dreams in praise of the paintings in the Momoyama period : the 100th anniversary of the Kyoto National Museum special exhibition.

Ogon no toki, yume no jidai Momoyama kaiga sanka : kaikan 100-shunen kinen tokubetsu tenrankai.

Kyoto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan
Published by Kyoto : Kyoto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 1997

352 pp. with 77 fine color plates - English & Japanese descriptions - essays in Japanese - luxury edition with endpapers of gold-leaves - 30x23 - as new copy (only 1 available in internet)..

2) Money L. Hickman - Japan's Golden Age: Momoyama.

Published by Yale University Press/Dallas Museum of Art, 1996

320 pp. with 162 color plates and illustrations - Clothbound with dustjacket - 29x25 - as new copy (only 1 available in internet)

The history, culture, and aesthetics of the Momoyama period are explored by analyzing and reproducing masterpieces of artists in many media: paintings (including many superb screen paintings), sculpture, calligraphy, tea ceremony utensils, lacquerware, ceramics, metalwork, arms and armor, textiles, and Noh masks. A team of leading scholars and specialists in Japanese art contributes an introduction to each section with an essay that places the individual works in a broader art-historical and cultural context.