title: Rimpa: Decorative Japanese Painting
author: Toshinobu Yasumura
description: <b>Toshinobu Yasumura</b>, born in Toyama, Japan, is a director at Itabashi Art Museum in Japan where he started his career in 1979. He has curated a wide array of special exhibitions of Japanese art, especially concentrating on the Edo period (16th-19th century)and has written a number of books about the subject.
zlib_text: erik thomsen
  japanese paintings and works of art
  
  japanese paintings and works of art
  erik thomsen     asian art
  
  Cover:
  Flowers of the Four Seasons, detail, pair of six-fold screens
  Anonymous artist of the Rimpa School (Nr. 1)
  Sales exhibition
  March 31–April 5, 2006
  The International Asian Art Fair
  The Seventh Regiment Armory
  Park Avenue at 67th Street, New York, NY 10021
  
  Table of contents
  5
  7
  33
  45
  59
  75
  84
  86
  92
  foreword and acknowledgements
  screens
  paintings
  bamboo baskets
  ceramics
  lacquers
  signatures, seals and inscriptions
  notes
  bibliography
  japanese paintings and works of art
  erik thomsen     asian art
  
  
  
  5
  foreword and acknowledgements
  It is with great pleasure that I present this inaugural  
  catalog, which includes a selection from my five 
  specialties within classical Japanese art: screens, 
  paintings, bamboo baskets, ceramics and lacquers. 
  Unlike most Japanese art objects seen in the West, 
  all items presented here were made, not with ex-
  ports in mind, but rather for the