Japanese Gardens - Tourist Library, Bk 4 Author:Matunosuke Tatui 3rd edition. 3 leaves of plates, 1 color. Bibliography included. — Joseph Rogala's A Collector's Guide to Books on Japan in English (Routledge, 2001) describes the series: — "One of the better short essay series on specific cultural information on Japan. Most are still available, not only in rare book stores but in used book stores as well. The fi... more »rst of the series, Tea Cult of Japan, was published in 1934; the last, Japanese National Character, No. 40, coming out in 1942. Some of the latter numbered booklets - thirty-five to forty - are more difficult to find, particularly number thirty-nine, Hand-made Paper of Japan. Many of the authors of these little gems have published other books in their specialties. Subsequent editions, most in hard cover, were published after the war. [...] Some of these little booklets were issued with onion paper covers, though most are now found without them."« less