Yukio Lippit Books
The Artist in Edo: Studies in the History of Art, vol. 80
By Yukio Lippit
"A historic first showing outside Japan of Itō Jakuchū's thirty-scroll series Colorful Realm of Living Beings (c. 1757-1766) at the National Gallery of Art was the occasion for this collection of t...
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Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird-and-Flower Paintings by Ito Jakuchu
By Yukio Lippit
"A much-anticipated harbinger of spring, the cherry blossom is also exemplary of the Japanese artistic aesthetic--a delight in simple, natural beauty and an attentiveness to the changing seasons....
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Painting of the realm
By Yukio Lippit
"Explores the 17th-century consolidation of Japanese painting style by the Kanō artistic house, based on knowledge brought back from China by the monk-painter Sesshü and intertwined with native Jap...
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Sotatsu
By Yukio Lippit, Edited By James T. Ulak
Sōtatsu is a beautifully designed volume celebrating the influential early seventeenth-century Japanese painter Tawaraya Sōtatsu. This book, the first Western survey of this important art...
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