Over her long career, Fumiko Hori has won acclaim as one of the prime exponents of the style of Japanese painting known as nihonga. In The Last Hour of Grace, the English-reading audience is presented for the first time with a comprehensive introduction to this artist in the form of essays by Hori, dialogues in which the artist discusses her life and her art and a generous sampling of her older and recent works.

"Some of the materials in this book are reproduced with the permission of the Metro Art Museum, Nakajima Art Museum, the Narukawa Art Museum and the New Otani Art Museum."--P. [2].

Preface -- Essays: Ever-changing nature; Evidence of life; Records of time; Glorious in their fall; Hoarfrost; Vermeer; Morpho butterfly; Fallen leaves burning; The path of spring -- Dialogues: Dialogue 1-Dialogue 10 -- Author profiles.