Thank you for digging up this information. I tried a number of Google searches without any luck. A good friend who is Japanese was able to find the artist's name and the book title but not the additional information you have found.
In reference to Olaf's comment about double page photos with the binding in the middle, this book is somehow bound so that all pages, not just the center two, will lie flat and paintings or drawings that are 1 1/2 page and 2 pages are not distracting. The scans I have shown were taken with a cell phone and the pages were not held down, but they can be and do lie perfectly flat. Of course in a photo it would be more obvious.
Michael Allen
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