Author: Shogakusei Zenshu.
Title: [Jido Supotsu].
Description: Tokyo, Kobunsha 1927 [Showa 2]. Octavo, cloth backed publisher's illustrated card wrapper; illustrated title, five photo plates, b/w illustrations through the text. Some browning and mild signs of use; a rather good copy. Shogakusei Zenshu no.70. Cover by Kosugi Misei. ¶ The Shogakusei Zenshu, or Complete Works for Elementary Schools, runs to some 88 volumes of educational texts and literature - much of this in translation; few of them seem elementary. This one is is sports. Kosugi is another of the generation who studied western painting at the beginning of the century, a founder of the Taiheiyogakai, and who, like so many of his contemporaries, returned to Japanese painting.

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