A highly illustrated guide to the historic progression of the ceramic art, tracing its journey backwards from the C18th porcelain factories of Meissen and Dresden through the port of Amsterdam via the trading posts of East Africa and the Dutch East Indies to the C16th Imari kilns of Arita in Japa

Superb production illustrating a world heritage site that houses the world's oldest surviving wooden buildings. Many top quality colour photographs of the wall paintings dating back 1300 years which had been badly damaged by fire in 1949. 103 pp. Text in Japanese.