Splendors of Meiji, Treasures of Imperial Japan: Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection by Earle, Joe - 1999

St. Petersburg, Fla: Broughton International Publications, 1999. Hardcover. VG/VG a bit of soiling at top of 1/2 title page, otherwise clean.. Burgundy cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, illus. flyleaves, 384 pp., 550+ color illus. "The catalogue of some 400 works from the Khalili Collection shown in a major U.S. exhibition presented by Broughton International, marking the first time in living memory that the American public has been given the opportunity to view the decorative arts of the Meiji Era in an encyclopedic and systematic fashion. The book opens with an account of Japanese history up to the moment in 1853 when the country was re-opened to the outside world by Commodore Perry of the United States Navy, and goes on to trace the extraordinary story of Japan's international artistic success, with detailed accounts of her participation in the three great expositions held in Philadelphia (1876), Chicago (1893), and St. Louis (1904), where Japanese works of art astonished and delighted many millions of our forebears." (dj).