The Landscape Painting of China and Japan . By Hugo Munsterberg. Tokyo: Tuttle, 1955. xv, 144. Index, 1 Color Plate, 101 Halftones. $7.50.

Abstract

concluding sections of the work describe in chronological order the establishment of granaries, the activities of officials entrusted with supervising the salt and iron monopolies, emperors who were either in favor of or against the imbibing of wines, the mining of copper, jade, and gold, commodity prices, currency issuance and standardization after the revocation of Wang Mang's fiscal innovations, and population fluctuations. This reviewer recommends this slender volume on Later Han economics, as it is an invaluable repository of fairly inaccessible references to a hitherto inadequately investigated subject.