The Arts of Honami Koetsu: Japanese Renaissance Master
by Hon'ami, Koetsu; Fischer, Felice
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine copy in near fine jacket. in near fine dust-jacket
- ISBN 10
- 087633138X
- ISBN 13
- 9780876331385
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About This Item
Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000. Hardcover. Fine copy in near fine jacket. in near fine dust-jacket. Quarto in tan cloth in tan pictorial jacket; illus. (some color); 220 pp., 27 x 30 cm.; jacket is faintly edgeworn, with small closed tear to upper open corner; o/w jacket is clean; cloth is clean and free of fraying; pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks and creases; an almost like new copy. In English. Contents: The life and arts of Honami Koetsu / Felice Fisher -- Poem cards: Waka and the Kyoto Renaissance / Edwin A. Cranston -- Books: The advent of movable-type printing: the early Keicho period and Kyoto cultural circles / Kyoko Kinoshita -- Handscrolls: The flowering of artistic collaboration / Felice Fischer -- Lacquerware: The Koetsu style in lacquerware / Yamazaki Tsuyoshi -- Takagamine colony: Koetsu at Takagamine / Fumiko E. Cranston -- Teabowls: The teabowls of Honami Koetsu / Saito Takamasa; Koetsu and the history of tea culture / Kamakura Isao; "Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, July 29-October 29, 2000"--Title page verso; with essays and catalogue entries by Edwin A. Cranston [and others].
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- Bibliope by Calvello Books
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- Title
- The Arts of Honami Koetsu: Japanese Renaissance Master
- Author
- Hon'ami, Koetsu; Fischer, Felice
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine copy in near fine jacket. in near fine dust-jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 087633138X
- ISBN 13
- 9780876331385
- Publisher
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Hon'ami, Koetsu, 1558-1637, Exhibitions, Catalogs
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