A History of Japanese Lacquerwork / / Beatrix Von Rague.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Von Rague, Beatrix,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1976
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (326 p.)

The exquisite art of Japanese lacquerwork has long had its share of devotees and collectors in the West. But ther has been little to help them take the step from admiration to more exact knowledge, since only a handful of experts have access to the comprehensive, although not always systematic, Japanese literature on the subject. This book is a translation from the German of the only western work on the history of the craft. Professor von Ragué links the development of Japanese lacquerwork to dated pieces, giving a sequence of fixed reference opints around which she fits numerous other significant but undated examples. She also clarifies the evolution of shape, design, and style, from prehistoric to present times, and discusses related arts such as ceramics, metalwork, and textiles to trace the relationship between the various branches of Japanese applied art and their influence on lacquerwork. The book is lavishly illustrated with black and white and some colour photographs of outstanding examples of Japanese lacquerwork, and is written in a style easy to read. It will be welcomed therefore by all friends of Japanese art, as well as by collectors, scholars, and art dealers who will appreciate the wealth of technical detail. Appendixes contain notes, al ist of dated objects from 764 to 1964, a glossary of Japanese descriptive terms, a list of Japanese artists and technical terms with corresponding Japanese characters, a bibliography, and an index.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Preface to the English edition -- Contents -- 1. Origins and apprentice years -- 2. Early Heian period: The rise of an indigenous style -- 3. Eleventh and twelfth centuries: The golden age of Heian lacquerwork -- 4. Kamakura period -- 5. Muromachi period I: Nambokuchō period to the Higashiyama period -- 6. Muromachi period II: from the end of the Higashiyama period to 1567 -- 7. Momoyama period -- 8. Early Edo period -- 9. Mid- and late Edo period -- 10. From the Meiji period to the present day -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of dated lacquer objects -- Glossary of more common Japanese descriptive terms -- Japanese names and technical terms with their corresponding written characters -- Period table -- Japanese provinces -- Index