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  • A Hundred masterpieces of Chinese ceramics from the Percival David Collection, London ; organized by Tokyo National Museum, Kyoto National Museum, Nagoya City Museum, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun.

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    • [Tokyo : Nihon Keizai Shimbun?], 1980.
    • 1980
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    Text 3-MPFF 82-240SASB - Art & Architecture Rm 300

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  • Nihon bijutsushi no kyoshōtachi / Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan hen.

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    • Tōkyō : Chikuma Shobō, Shōwa 57 [1982]
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OSM 84-552 v. 1-2Offsite
  • Kōbō Daishi to mikkyō bijutsu : nyūjō 1150-nen / [hensyū Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan ... et al.].

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    • [Tōkyō] : Asahi Shinbunsha, 1983.
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
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    Text 3-MAG 84-2225Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Bosuton Bijutsukan shozō Nihon kaiga meihinten / [henshu Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan].

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    • [Tokyo] : Nihon Terebi Hōsōmō, c1983.
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OSM+ 90-11906Offsite
  • Nihon no katchū : tokubetsu tenrankai / [henshū Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan].

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    • Tōkyō : Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Shōwa 62 [1987]
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OSM 90-9088Offsite
  • Jūhasseiki no Nihon bijutsu : kattōsuru biishiki : tokubetsu tenrankai / [henshū Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan].

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    • [Kyoto] : Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item

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    Text 3-MAG 92-6006Offsite
  • Būruderu ten.

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    • [Tokyo], [1968]
    • 1968
    • 1 Item
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    Text 3-MGO (Bourdelle) 91-1974SASB - Art & Architecture Rm 300

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  • Ninnaji no meihō : tokubetsu tenrankai : Uda Tennō kaisō 1100-nen kinen / [henshū Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan].

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    • [Kyoto] : Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan ; [Tokyo] : Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, 1988.
    • 1988
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OSM 90-7461Offsite
  • Indo kodai chōkoku ten = Ancient sculptures of India / [henshū Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha].

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    • [Tokyo] : Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, 1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
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    Text 3-MAE 91-1887Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku kodai seidōki ten : 1976-nen 3-gatsu 30-nichi - 5-gatsu 23-nichi, Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan ; 1976-nen 6-gatsu 15-nichi - 8-gatsu 8-nichi, Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan / shusai Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan ... [et al.].

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    • [Tōkyō] : Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 2 Items
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    Text *OVLA 05-8510Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    Text 3-MGR 92-587Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Miidera hihōten : Chishō Daishi 1100-nen goonki kinen / [henshū Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Nagoya-shi Hakubutsukan].

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    • [Tokyo] : Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, 1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OSM 92-9733Offsite
  • Heijōkyō ten : saigensareta Nara no miyako : hakkutsu 30-nen kinen / [henshū Nara Kokuritsu Bunkazai Kenkyūjo, Asahi Shinbun Ōsaka Honsha Kikakubu].

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    • [Osaka] : Asahi Shinbun Ōsaka Honsha Kikakubu, 1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OSE 92-13741Offsite
  • Kobijutsu taikan / [hensan Onshi Kyōto Hakubutsukan].

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    • [Kyōto-shi] : Benridō, Shōwa 4 [1929]
    • 1929
    • 4 Items
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    Text *OSM+ 93-98 v. 2Offsite
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    Text *OSM+ 93-98 v. 3Offsite
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    Text *OSM+ 93-98 v. 4-5Offsite
  • Shīboruto to Nihon : Nihon Oranda shūkō 380-nen kinen : kaiki kaijō 3-gatsu 29-nichi--5-gatsu 5-nichi Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 5-gatsu 14-nichi--6-gatsu 12-nichi Nagoya-shi Hakubutsukan, 6-gatsu 21-nichi--7-gatsu 31-nichi Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan / shusai Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan ... [et al.] ; [henshū Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Asahi Shinbunsha].

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    • [Tokyo] : Asahi Shinbunsha, 1988.
    • 1988
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OSM 93-2884Offsite
  • Nihon no bijutsu, 1966-

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    • Tokyo : Shibundō.
    • 1966-present
    • 89 Items
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    Text *OSA 84-2527SASB - Periodicals Rm 108

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    Text *OSA 84-2527SASB - Periodicals Rm 108

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    Text *OSA 84-2527 no. 545 (2012)Offsite
  • Emaki : tokubetsu tenrankai / Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan.

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    • [Kyoto] : Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Shōwa 62 [1987]
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
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    Text 3-MAG 94-5340SASB - Art & Architecture Rm 300

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  • Muromachi jidai bijutsuten zuroku.

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    • Kyōto : Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 1967.
    • 1967
    • 1 Item
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    Text 3-MAF 95-672SASB - Art & Architecture Rm 300

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  • Berurin Tōyō Bijutsukan meihinten = Chinesische und japanische Kunst : Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst / [henshū Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Berurin Tōyō Bijutsukan, Mainichi Hōsō].

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    • [S.l.] : White Public Relations Co., 1992, c1991.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OSB+ 97-2448Offsite
  • Classical kimono from the Kyoto National Museum : four centuries of fashion / [edited by Michael Morrison and Lorna Price].

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    • San Francisco : Asian Art Museum ; [Seattle] : distributed by University of Washington Press, 1997.
    • 1997
    • 1 Item
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    Text 3-MMR+ 99-7881Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Nihon bijutsu meihō ten : gozaii rokujūnen kinen : Shōwa 61-nen 9-gatsu 23-nichi--10-gatsu 19-nichi, Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Shōwa 61-nen 11-gatsu 1-nichi--30-nichi, Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan / shusai Bunkachō, Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan.

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    • [Tokyo] : Nihon Terebi Hōsōmō Kabushiki Kaisha, Shōwa 61 [1986]
    • 1986
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OSM 88-2070Offsite
  • Doitsu Tōrufan tankentai Seiiki bijutsuten / [henshū Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Asahi Shinbunsha] = Central Asian art from the Museum of Indian Art, Berlin, SMPK / [edited by Tokyo National Museum, Kyoto National Museum, Asahi Shimbun].

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    • [Tokyo] : Asahi Shinbunsha, 1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OSB+ 98-8183Offsite
  • Heian jidai no bijutsu, Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan kanshū.

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    • [Kyōto] Benridō, [Shōwa 33 i.e. 1958]
    • 1958
    • 1 Item
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    Text MAG+ (Kyoto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan. Heian jidai no bijutsu)Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Oranda ōshitsu : shirarezaru roiyaru korekushōn = The Dutch royal collection / [henshū Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Mainichi Shinbunsha].

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    • [Tokyo] : Mainichi Shinbunsha, c2000.
    • 2000
    • 1 Item
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    Text JQG 01-132Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300

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  • Miyako no mōdo : kimono no jidai = Kyoto style : trends in 16th-19th century kimono / Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan hen.

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    • Kyōto-shi : Shibunkaku Shuppan, 2001.
    • 2001
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OSM+ 03-3630Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Rembrandt Rembrandt / [Herausgeber, Städelsches Kunstinstitut ; Autor, Jeroen Giltaij].

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    • Frankfurt a.M. : Das Städel ; [Kyoto] : Kyoto National Museum ; Wolfratshausen : Edition Minerva, c2003.
    • 2003
    • 1 Item
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    Text JQF 03-1924Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300

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  • Sesshū : botsugo 500-nen, tokubetsuten / [henshū Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan].

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    • [Tokyo] : Mainichi Shinbunsha, 2002.
    • 2002
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OSM+ 03-1831Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Kūkai to Kōyasan : Kōbō Daishi nyūtō 1200-nen kinen = Kūkai and Mount Kōya : treasures of a sacred mountain : special exhibition / [henshū Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan ... [et al.]

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    • [Osaka] : NHK Ōsaka Hōsōkyoku : NHK Kinki Media Puran, 2003.
    • 2003
    • 2 Items
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    Text *OSM+ 04-5449Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    Text JQG 09-749Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300

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  • Indo kodai bijutsu ten / shusai Indo Taishikan, Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, ...

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    • Tōkyō : Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, [1963]
    • 1963
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OVLA 05-6012Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Ko Kiyomizu : Kyō no bijutsu : tokubetsu tenrankai / Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan.

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    • [Kyōto] : Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 1970.
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OVLA 05-8130Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Traditions unbound : groundbreaking painters of eighteenth-century Kyoto / Matthew P. McKelway, guest curator ; essays by Yoko Woodson ... [et al.] ; entries by Matthew P. McKelway ; translations and additional contributions by Melissa M. Rinne.

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    • San Francisco : Asian Art Museum--Chong-Moon Lee Center, 2005.
    • 2005
    • 1 Item
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    Text JQZ 13-1007Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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  • Saichō to Tendai no kokuhō : Tendaishū kaishū 1200-nen kinen / [henshū Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan].

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    • [Tokyo] : Yomiuri Shinbunsha, 2005
    • 2005
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OSM+ 07-4549Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Nanzenji : Kameyama Hōō 700 nen gyoki kinen =Treasures of a great Zen temple, the Nanzenji / [heshū Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Asahi Shinbunsha].

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    • [Tokyo] : Asahi Shinbunsha, 2004.
    • 2004
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OSO+ 07-4630Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Kyōyaki : miyako no ishō to waza : tokubetsu tenrankai / [henshū Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan].

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    • Kyōto-shi : Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2006.
    • 2006
    • 1 Item
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    Text ReCAP 09-1127Offsite
  • Kankoku bijutsu gosennen ten = 5000 years of Korean arts / shusai Kankoku Kokuritsu Chūō Hakubutsukan ... [et al. ; zuroku henshū Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan ... et al.].

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    • [Tokyo] : Asahi Shinbunsha, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OVLA 08-4026Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Myōshinji : kaizan Musō Daishi 650-nen onki kinen / henshū Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Yomiuri Shinbunsha.

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    • [Tokyo] : Yomiuri Shinbunsha, 2009.
    • 2009
    • 1 Item
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    Text ReCAP 09-1131Offsite
  • Transmitting robes, linking minds : the world of Buddhist kaṣāya.

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    • Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; [Kyoto] : Kyoto National Museum, c2010.
    • 2010
    • 1 Item
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    Text ReCAP 13-46227Offsite
  • Kinsei Nihon no kaiga / Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan hen.

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    • Kyōto-shi : Dōhōsha Shuppan, Shōwa 6l [1986]
    • 1986
    • 1 Item
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    Text AA200 K98KOff-site
  • Kōbō Daishi to Mikkyō bijutsu : nyūjō 1150-nen / [henshū Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan ... et al.]

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    • [Tokyo] : Asahi Shinbunsha, Shōwa 58 [1983]
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
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    Text A3057 K75NOff-site
  • Caspar David Friedrich und sein Kreis : Ausstellung im Nationalmuseum für moderne Kunst, Tokyo vom 11. Februar bis 2. April 1978 und im Nationalmuseum, Kyoto vom 8. April bis 28. Mai 1978 / veranstaltet von dem Nationalmuseum für moderne Kunst, Tokyo ... [et al.] mit der Unterstützung des Aussenministeriums Japans ... [et al.] ; [Katalogredaktion, Kazuo Anazawa, Kunio Motoe].

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    • [Tokyo : Nationalmuseum für moderne Kunst], c1978.
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
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    Text FA4025.5.101Off-site
  • Bourdelle [exposition] 7 juillet-25 août, 1968, Musée National d'art Occidental, Tokyo; 8 Septembre-27 Octobre, 1968, Musée National de Kyoto.

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    • [Tokyo, 1968]
    • 1968
    • 1 Item
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    Text FA5186.15.14Off-site
  • One hundred masterpieces from USSR museums. Exhibited in Japan under the auspices of the Tokyo National Museum, the Kyoto National Museum, the Nihon keizai shimbun; the Tokyo National Museum, April 10-May 30, 1971; the Kyoto National Museum, June 8-July 25, 1971.

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    • [Tokyo, Nihon Keizai Shimbun Sha 1971]
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
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    Text AM450.842.10Off-site
  • Nishi Honganji no hihō / [henshū Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan].

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    • Kyōto-shi : Nishi Honganji, Shōwa 55 [1980]
    • 1980
    • 2 Items
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    Text MLC-JOff-site
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    Text A2374 N723Off-site
  • Nihon no reimei : kōko shiryō ni miru Nihon bunka no higashi to nishi / Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan hen.

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    • Kyōto : Dōhōsha, Shōwa 54 [1979]
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
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    Text A6030 K98NOff-site
  • Shōhekiga no hōko Kyō Ōmi no meisaku : tokubetsu tenrankai / [shusai] Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Kyōto Shinbunsha ; [henshū Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan].

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    • [Kyoto] : Kyōto Shinbunsha, Shōwa 54 [1979]
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
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    Text AA144 K98SOff-site
  • Nihonjin ga kōnanda Chugoku toji : tokubetsu tenrankai : kaiki Heisei 3-nen 10-gatsu 8-nichi--11-gatsu 10-nichi : kaijō Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan honkan.

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    • [Kyōto : Hakubutsukan, 1991]
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
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    Text AM683 J35KyOff-site
  • Kyōto shaji chōsa hōkoku.

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    • Kyōto-shi : Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan
    • 19-present
    • 14 Items
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    Text J 1912.41 0460 v.15Off-site
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    Text J 1912.41 0460 v.16Off-site
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    Text J 1912.41 0460 v.17Off-site
  • Sanjūrokunin kashū to Kunōjikyō / Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan hen.

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    • [Kyōto] : Benridō, [Shōwa 28 i.e. 1953]
    • 1953
    • 1 Item
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    Text J 6274 0460Off-site
  • Berurin Tōyō Bijutsukan meihinten = Chinesische und japanische Kunst : Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst / [tekisuto Wiribaruto Faito ; henshū Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, Berurin Tōyō Bijutsukan, Mainichi Hōsō].

    • Text
    • [Japan] : Howaito P R, [1992], c1991.
    • 1992-1991
    • 1 Item
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    Text A1360 S775SOff-site
  • Nichiren to Hokke no meihō, hanahiraku Kyōto machishū bunka : tokubetsu tenrankai "Risshō ankokuron" sōshin 750-nen kinen = Nichiren and the treasures of the lotus sect : efflorescent culture of Kyoto's townspeople / [henshū Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan].

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    • [Kyoto] : Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan : Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, 2009.
    • 2009
    • 2 Items
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    Text N7353.4 .N53 2009 c.2Off-site
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    Text N7353.4 .N53 2009Off-site
  • Ōbaku = Obaku : Kyōto Uji, Manpukuji no meihō to Zen no shinpū : Kyūshū Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan 5-shūnen kinen Ōbakushū Daihonzan Manpukuji kaisō 350-nen kinen : tokubetsuten / [henshū Kyūshū Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan].

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    • [Japan] : Nishi Nihon Shinbunsha, 2011.
    • 2011
    • 1 Item
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    Text N8193.3.Z4 O225 2011Off-site

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