Toushiki Zukai Shodo Youketsu (=Methods of Japanese Calligraphy with see-through lettered tissue guards)

Pp. 176; 100+ full page plates of calligraphy, many with tissue guards lettered in red to demonstrating the ink strokes necessary to make the Japanese characters. Publisher’s original green-patterned silk-covered boards, front cover with paper title label, bound at spine with purple silk ties in Japanese style, gold-flaked endpapers, sm 4to (10 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches). Signature of ‘S. Pearce, Tokyo, December 1945’ on the front endpaper.