JAPANESE LACQUER ART. Modern Masterpieces.
by Edited by the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0834815249
- ISBN 13
- 9780834815247
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About This Item
New York, Tokyo, Kyoto: Weatherhill / Tankosha, (1982). first American edition.. hardcover. Fine/Fine. Translated into English by Richard L. Gage. Foreword by Kenji Adachi. Introduction by Jo Okada. "The Modernization of Japanese Lacquer Art" by Masami Shiraishi. Quarto, black cloth covers with gilt titles and pictorial design. 299 pages. Features thirty-eight contemporary Japanese lacquer artists with 246 full color plates. "An additional thirty-six pages of vivid color photographs illustrate in step by step sequences more than twenty different lacquer techniques, including mother of pearl inlay, carved lacquer, gold-filled engraving, and metallic dust sprinkling." 122615B
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- Bookseller
- Alkahest Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000016625
- Title
- JAPANESE LACQUER ART. Modern Masterpieces.
- Author
- Edited by the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first American edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0834815249
- ISBN 13
- 9780834815247
- Publisher
- Weatherhill / Tankosha
- Place of Publication
- New York, Tokyo, Kyoto
- Date Published
- (1982)
- Keywords
- Lacquerers, Craft
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