3 Books - Netsuke - 2004

Book 1

Kiho Takagi - Masterpieces of Netsuke and Ojime
182 pages
Soft cover in slipcase
25 x 22 cm
English

Mint Condition

This book presents the facinating netsuke and ojime art of Kiho Takagi, a Japanese artist of soaring imagination and supurb skills. Kiho and some of his predecessors and contemporaries have lifted Japan's traditional miniature sculpture to new heights of excelence.

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Book 2

The Poetry of Netsuke
158 pages
Soft cover in slipcase
25 x 22 cm
English

Mint Condition

This book is a reasury of miniature poems and miniature sculptures, enhanced by perceptive comments from some of the world's leading scholars.

Both of these unique art forms, poetry and netsuke, achieved their pinnacles of exellence in the culture of Japan, but they no longer are exclusively Japanese. During the twentieth century, they evolved into truly international art forms of remarkable beauty and interest, and they now are greatly admired troughout the world.

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Book 3

Adornment in Clay - Ceramic Netsuke from the Richard R. Silverman Collection
84 pages
Soft cover
22 x 22 cm
English

Mint Condition

Renowned netsuke collector Richard R. Silverman's gift of 226 ceramic netsuke to the Toledo Museum of Art constitutes perhaps the largest public collection of these miniature clay sculptures in the world. Adornment in Clay provides new scholarship and an in-depth examination of this subgenre in the context of both Japanese ceramics and the wider field of netsuke production.
A History of Ceramic Netsuke; Selected Highlights; Map of Kiln Locations; Illustrated Checklist of 226 Netsuke plus Seals and Signatures; Glossary; Selected Bibliography; Index.