FISHES OF EDO

Decipher the history of Japanese people and fishes with authoritative Edo-period illustration collections. This third volume following Flowers of Edo and Birds of Edo turns its focus onto fishes. M?ri Baien was a natural history painter considered to be representative of the Edo period. This book features illustrations of 94 species created by M?ri Baien carefully selected from Baien-Gyofu (Baien Atlas of Fishes) and Baien-Gyohinzusei (Baien Pictorial Encyclopedia of Fishes), explained in bilingual Japanese-English text with informati...[Llegir més]