Japanese Design Motifs 4260 Illustrations of Japanese Crests - Adachi, Fumie
4260 illustrations of heraldic crests.
KORTE INHOUD
This collection presents more than 4,000 individual designs in the 900-year-old tradition of Japanese family crests. Through constant variation and invention over the centuries, this has become one of the richest graphic art traditions in the world. Most of these motifs are circular, and they can all be fitted into a square. Within those limitations is a seemingly endless range of designs, beginning with the dozens and dozens of root motifs — rice plant, gingko, scallop, lightning, anchor, spool, raft, candle, scissors, fern, saki bottle, lotus blossom, mountain arrow, pine, wisteria, ship, rabbit, and scores of others. Practically every kind of plant, bird, animal, natural phenomenon, and manufactured object of Japanese culture was at one time or another included in a family crest. In addition, each of the root designs was treated to dozens of imaginative variations — they were reproduced bilaterally, in triangles, diamonds, five- and six-pointed stars, in spirals, were built up in series, made to overlap, c...
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1972Uitgever: Dover Publications, New York216 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0486228746ISBN-13: 9780486228747Koop dit boek tweedehands
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The 4,260 individual designs collected here represent the 900-year-old tradition of Japanese family crests. This unabridged republication of the catalog originally compiled around 1913 by the Matsuya Piece-Goods Store in Tokyo contains a translation of the original Foreword plus a new Introduction by Fumie Adachi and a new English Index.
Paperback, 221 pages, English, 290 x 210 mm, illustrated in b/w. ISBN 9780486228747. [Auteur: Matsuya Company] [Pagina's: 221] [Uitgever: , Dover Publications Inc. 1972, 19...
Paperback, 221 pages, English, 290 x 210 mm, illustrated in b/w. ISBN 9780486228747. [Auteur: Matsuya Company] [Pagina's: 221] [Uitgever: , Dover Publications Inc. 1972, 19...
