We don’t often see an art book zoom up Amazon’s sales rankings, so the rise of Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird-and-Flower Paintings by Ito Jakuchu from #1,376 to #109, is remarkable.

The book is the illustrated catalog of an exhibition of the revered 18th C Japanese artist’s work at the National Gallery of Art, featured on the PBS NewsHour last night. The paintings on silk are so fragile that they are rarely displayed.

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Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird-and-Flower Paintings by Ito Jakuchu Yukio Lippit Retail Price: $50.00 Hardcover: 224 pages Publisher: University Of Chicago Press – (2012-04-15) ISBN / EAN: 0226484602 / 9780226484600

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