Japanese portfolio Mingei shima (Mingei striped textiles), complete with fifty numbered plates with fifty tipped-in samples of handmade folk textile with decorative strips (shima). Complete with a table of introduction. Compiled by Rokurō Uemura (1894-1991). Published by Kyoto shoin, Kyoto in 1965. The textiles samples ca. 1870-1900. Uemura Rokurō was one of the most important Japanese scholars of mingei textile. Size: 41x32 cm. In very good condition.