TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harold P Stern
TI  - Birds, beasts, blossoms, and bugs : the nature of Japan
SN  - 0810907089
U1  - 709.52 S839b 
PY  - 1976///
CY  - New York
PB  -  H.N. Abrams, 
KW  -  Art, Japanese.
KW  - Nature (Aesthetics)
KW  - Natural history illustration
KW  - Japan
N2  - 	
This scholarly book with its magnificent illustrations explores in detail a fundamental fact of Japanese art, a theme also intrinsic to the very "nature" of the Japanese people, and an essential expression of their philosophy and heritage. The book traces the development of this threme through an examination of some 140 objects from the twelfth to nineteenth centuries. The outstanding collections in the United
ER  -