Mitsutani Toshiko Art Collection: A Single Path

▪️The opening spread features the name of the original owner and a ten-line message, along with the author's signature, written in brush. (See image ⑧)

◎ Toshiko Mitani: A Japanese painter from Hyogo Prefecture. Her real name is Toshiko. She is one of the representative female Japanese painters. From before the war until shortly after the war, she mainly depicted girls in kimono, and from around 1950, she focused on women in Western clothing, imbuing her paintings with a poetic flavor through thick, soft colors.

☆Contents☆
⚫︎Regarding the Publication of My Collection of Paintings
⚫︎To the Toshiko Mitani Painting Collection - Michiaki Kawakita
⚫︎About Toshiko Mitani - Tatsuo Takayama
⚫︎The Marie Laurencin of Japan - Shoko Hashimoto
【Works of Toshiko Mitani】
⚫︎Color Plates: 88
⚫︎Sketch Collection (Wildflowers, etc.): 20
⚫︎Monochrome Plates: 34
【A Single Path】
⚫︎Poems and Drawings
⚫︎Six Tanka Poems
⚫︎A Single Path
⚫︎The Artistic Career of Toshiko Mitani - Michitaro Takeda
⚫︎The Footsteps of Mitani's Art - Shinichi Nagai
⚫︎Unforgettable Things - Hideo Nishiyama
⚫︎Professor Toshiko Mitani of Joshi Bijutsu Daigaku (Women's Art University) - Suzuhiko Kawasaki
⚫︎Brief Biography of Toshiko Mitani
⚫︎Publication Year and Exhibition of the Plates in This Book

◉Large-format book (34.5 cm tall x 26.5 cm wide). Comes with a slipcase. Hardcover. 160 pages. Price: ¥35,000
◉Published by Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha on November 1, 1985. Edited and produced by: Jitsugyo no Nihon Jigyō Shuppan-bu (Business Japan Publishing Department)

★Condition: The slipcase has scratches, some stains, slight discoloration, and fading on the top, indicating use. The book itself (without a paraffin cover) has some stains on the cloth-covered cover and stains on the edges of the pages. There are noticeable stains on the back of the frontispiece (author's recent photo) and the following page, as well as on the back of the colophon (see images 19 and 20). There are also some stains on the margins of some pages, indicating use, but the plates are in good condition.