Netsuke: 112 Meisterwerke


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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.




The World of Netsuke


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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


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Essay by Joe Earle.







Splendors of Imperial Japan


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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


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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.




Die sinnliche Linie


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Designing Nature


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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.




Lacquerware in Asia, Today and Yesterday


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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.