The World of Netsuke

The World of Netsuke

Author: Patrizia Jirka-Schmitz

Publisher: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 358

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Amassed over more than thirty-five years, the Werdelmann Collection is one of the most important netsuke collections in the world. It provides a unique survey of this Japanese art form which was at its height between the late 17th century and the early 20th century. Comprising more than 1100 objects, the collection


Netsuke

Netsuke

Author: Joe Earle

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 364

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Essay by Joe Earle.


Splendors of Imperial Japan

Splendors of Imperial Japan

Author: Joe Earle

Publisher: Khalili Collections

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 480

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An exhibition catalogue in full colour of some 350 masterpieces from the Meiji Period. Exhibited at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon in 2002.


Bamboo in old Japan : art and culture on the threshold to modernity : the Hans Spörry collection in the Ethnographic Museum of Zürich University

Bamboo in old Japan : art and culture on the threshold to modernity : the Hans Spörry collection in the Ethnographic Museum of Zürich University

Author: Martin Brauen

Publisher: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 296

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Hans Aporry, a resident of Yokohama from 1890 until 1896, lavished time and resources on amassing an incomparable collection of objects made of, or referring to, bamboo. This work celebrates the collection with photographs both old and new.


Lacquerware in Asia, Today and Yesterday

Lacquerware in Asia, Today and Yesterday

Author: Monika Kopplin

Publisher: Unesco

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 248

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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.


Designing Nature

Designing Nature

Author: John T. Carpenter

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1588394719

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Exhibition of paintings, lacquerwork, ceramics, textiles, calligraphy, and other media all in the Rinpa style from 1600 to the present day.


Netsuke: 112 Meisterwerke

Netsuke: 112 Meisterwerke

Author: Patrizia Jirka-Schmitz

Publisher: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 298

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The Netsuke objects featured in this book are from one of the world's leading collections. These beguiling and fascinating works of art have become a very strong collecting subject.