Goro akaboshi (5 risultati)

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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 21.5 x 15 cm. Octavo. 159pp. Hardcover in price clipped dust jacket. Translated by June Silla. Extensively illustrated with photos, some color. Small closed tear to front cover of jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good Plus. First American Edition. Stated first English edition, presumed first printing, 1975. This book is a translation from the Japanese of, Chosen no yakimono: richo, published in 1965. Printed and bound in Japan. Main text set in 11-point Monotype Bell, with hand-set Bell for display. 8.5 x 6 inches. Charmingly bound in Japan-paper hardboards, the paper with a fish motif. Olive green cloth spine, with crisp gilt-stamped titling. Unbumped spine head and tail, and sharp corners. Exceptionally clean binding. Text block firmly bound in and rather tight. With 159 numbered pages on lightly coated stock. Text includes classification and terminology of Yi Dynasty pottery, and commentaries on the photographs. B&W map of Korea opposite Introduction page. With 17 color plates, most full page. Also with 112 featured illustrations, reproduced as duotone photos. Many of the illustrations are of archival significance. A very clean interior. Either unread or very gently read. The color pictorial dust jacket is fully intact, although slightly age-faded. DJ with a transparent Brodart protective covering. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good Plus DJ. 2 lbs. 1 oz. The pottery of Korea's Yi Dynasty [1392-1910] embodies the very essence of Korea and its people. In its unsophisticated elegance, it bespeaks the modesty and humility of its makers. During the five centuries of rule of the House of Yi, a totally Confucian way of life was rigidly imposed on the people and penetrated deeply into the fabric of society. The potters of the age, prohibited by austere Confucian precepts from indulging in aesthetic pursuits, were able to produce only wares for everyday use, such as rice bowls and jars for pickled foods. Even within this narrow frame-work, however, they displayed an instinctive knowledge that regularity and refinement are not the only criteria for beauty. Their products are often warped and asymmetric, but it is for this very imperfection that they have come to be highly prized.…

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