MATSUMOTO (Nobuhiro) - Lot 225

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MATSUMOTO (Nobuhiro) - Lot 225
MATSUMOTO (Nobuhiro) An Essay on Japanese Mythology. With 9 plates. “Austro-Asiatica: Documents and Works Published under the Direction of Jean Przyluski” series, Volume II. Paris, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1928. Large 8vo, [12]-144 pp., 9 black-and-white plates; paperback, with the publisher’s printed cover. First edition, published in French. The bibliographic details are well established: Geuthner, 1928, Volume II of the Austro-Asiatica series, with nine plates. The work is held, notably, at the National Diet Library of Japan and is listed in numerous university collections. An important study by Nobuhiro Matsumoto (1897–1981) on the mythological traditions of ancient Japan. In it, the author examines, in particular, the accounts in the *Kojiki* and the *Nihon Shoki*, the deities of Izumo and Amaterasu, the traditions concerning the origins of the Japanese people, and their connections to the cultures of East and South Asia. This work, based on Matsumoto’s doctoral research, continues to be cited in subsequent studies on the development of Japanese mythology. The book is also of particular interest in the history of Japanese studies in France: it was published under the direction of Jean Przyluski, in a series for which Matsumoto himself had contributed the first volume that same year, *The Japanese and the Austroasiatic Languages*. A fine paperback copy, preserved in its original publisher’s dust jacket, in particularly good condition for this type of scholarly publication from the 1920s. A few foxing spots and minor signs of wear on the cover and margins; interior generally fresh. All 9 plates are present.
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