Catalogue of remarkable antique carvings taken from famous temples and palaces of old Japan : recently brought to this country by B. Matsuki, Tokyo
This 1902 sale catalogue from the American Art Association in New York offers antique Japanese carvings that B. Matsuki brought from temples and palaces in Tokyo for an American collecting audience. The plates show dark carved wooden panels with dragons, phoenix-like birds, and dense scrolling foliage, with a few dim photographs of a night sky at the end. A designer could take from them the interplay of carved relief, swirling cloud scrolls, and bold figures set within narrow rectangular frames.
