Netsuke Masks

Bushell, Raymond

ISBN 10: 0834803410 / ISBN 13: 9780834803411

Editore: Weatherhill Inc, 1995

First US edition, published 10 years after the first Japanese. Hard cover in slip case. Colour illustrations of 350 netsuke, mostly masks, as well as black and white details of signatures and a discussion of historic masks. An early monograph on the subject, with some errors. Codice articolo ABE-1705418552047

Riassunto:

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.

Informazioni sull?autore: Raymond Bushell, attorney, collector, and netsuke authority, is known to netsuke collectors for his adaptation into English of The Netsuke Handbook of Ueda Reikichi, an important work on the subject. He is the author of The Wonderful World of Netsuke, An Introduction to Netsuke, Netsuke Familiar and Unfamiliar, The Inro Handbook, The Art of Netsuke Carving, and Collectors' Netsuke. He is also a frequent contributor of articles to Arts of Asia, The Journal of International Netsuke Collectors, and The Netsuke Kenkyukai Study Journal. He arrived in Japan with the American occupation forces in 1945 and lived there until 1990 practicing law, collecting, and studying netsuke, inro, and sword furnishings.

Dati bibliografici

Titolo: Netsuke Masks
Casa editrice: Weatherhill Inc
Data di pubblicazione: 1995
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: As New
Condizione sovraccoperta: As New
Edizione: 2nd Edition