Lacquerware in Asia, Today and Yesterday
Lacquerware in Asia, Today and Yesterday

Author: Monika Kopplin

Publisher: Unesco

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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Dating back several thousand years, the art of lacquer is one of the most ancient expressions of Asian culture, and this publication provides an overview of the different kinds of methods and materials used in Cambodia, China, India, Korea, Japan, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. The number of people employed in this ancestral art has fallen dramatically throughout Asia in recent decades, and this book considers the challenges to its survival as well as highlighting the importance of documenting past and modern procedures.

Netsuke
Netsuke

Author: Madeline R. Tollner

Publisher:

Published: 2012-09-01

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9781258485023

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Netsuke Masks
Netsuke Masks

Author: Raymond Bushell

Publisher: Weatherhill, Incorporated

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9780834803411

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Netsuke are small toggles or buckles carved from wood or ivory. The Japanese in the seventeenth century used them to fasten pouches to their kimono belt, since kimonos had no pockets. This lavishly illustrated book takes the reader on an exciting tour of one type of netsuke—those carved to look like the masks used by stage actors.