Download or read book Legend in Japanese Art written by Henri L. Joly and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Custom and Myth written by Andrew Lang and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Japan and Its Art written by Marcus B. Huish and published by Crastre Press. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION THE long interval, nearly twenty years, that has been allowed to elapse since the last edition of Japan and its art was issued and exhausted, would seem to call for some explanation to a public that has for some time been asking for a further one. The reasons for the delay are two. First and foremost, the changes in Japan, in her maltiers, customs, and even her Arts. These have been so continuous, the old order giving place to the new with such rapidity, that it has seemed impossible to keep abreast of them in any record that might be prepared. Secondly, the authors leisure has been taken up with other literary tasks, specially the Honorary Editorship of the Japan Societys Tuaasnrfioru, during our fourteen years, and the Editorship of the English edition of Count Okumas Fifty Years of Sew Japan. But the recent break in the Iistory of Japan, owing to the close of the Alejera, and the commencement of that of Taisho.

Download or read book Japanese Art Motives written by Maude Rex Allen and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... part iv symbols and symbolic objects Fkom the varied number of the art objects of Japan, it is difficult to select only such as are of direct symbolic import, for the artists and designers have drawn untiringly from the realm of legend and symbolic design for the decorative motives of all objects, whatever their use. In order to keep within certain bounds, however, an attempt has been made to restrict the choice of objects described in this section to those of ritual or ceremonial use, and to the attributes of the deities. This, of course, necessitates the omission of such familiar and interesting objects as the inro, or tiered medicine case; the smoker's quaint outfit; the artist's boxes; the tsuba, and other sword furniture, which have been very slightly touched upon in the article on the sword; and, perhaps the most important of all, the netsuke.1 A collection of these last-mentioned exquisitely carved bits of ivory, which were used to prevent the slipping of the pendant purse, biro, or tobacco pouch from the sash or belt, would probably show representations of every legend, symbol, and deity mentioned in this book, but the utilitarian character of their use excludes them under the classification adopted. i Albert Brockhaus. Netsuki. Versuch einer Geschichte der Japanischen Schnitzkunst. Marcus Bourne Huish, ' The Evolution of a Netsuki, ' Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society, vn (1897), pp. 2-16. Henri L. Joly, Legend in Japanese Art, article, "Netsuke." takara-bune (Ship of Good Fortune) On the second day of the New Year, the symbol-loving Japanese place under their pillows slips of paper having representations of the Tdkara-bune drawn upon them, with the prayer that this Ship of Good Fortune may come into port on the...