Download or read book The Culture of Copying in Japan written by Rupert Cox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-09-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the perception of Japan as a ‘copying culture’ through a series of detailed ethnographic and historical case studies. It addresses a question about why the West has had such a fascination for the adeptness with which the Japanese apparently assimilate all things foreign and at the same time such a fear of their skill at artificially remaking and automating the world around them. Countering the idea of a Japan that deviously or ingenuously copies others, it elucidates the history of creative exchanges with the outside world and the particular myths, philosophies and concepts which are emblematic of the origins and originality of copying in Japan. The volume demonstrates the diversity and creativity of copying in the Japanese context through the translation of a series of otherwise loosely related ideas and concepts into objects, images, texts and practices of reproduction, which include: shamanic theatre, puppetry, tea utensils, Kyoto town houses, architectural models, genres of painting, calligraphy, and poetry, ‘sample’ food displays, and the fashion and car industries.
Download or read book COMPLETE SPIRITUAL SECRETS written by Rev Elizabeth Paddon PhD and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COMPLETE SPIRITUAL SECRETS came about as many people around the world requested help to awaken their own spiritual abilities. My Spirit Guides directed me to create this book. Spiritual Secrets is written so that no matter where in the world you are, you can receive guidance to help yourself grow spiritually and therefore gain mastership over your life, happiness and success. A Psychic is one who can help you connect with the various secrets of your physical life. Spirituality contains many gifts of God within it. We all have the ability to tap into any part of being psychic. So if you are ready to be your own psychic, then read and experience SPIRITUA SECRETS for yourself and find the answers to all that you need, are already inside yourself. SPIRITUAL SECRETS will help you connect so you can utilize this gift for yourself.
Download or read book Fired Up With Raku written by Irene Poulton and published by Crowood. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origins of raku can be traced back hundreds of years to Japan, where it was used as the traditional method of creating clay bowls for the tea ceremony. Over the years potters have embraced and adapted the methods, celebrating the remarkable but unpredictable results achieved using raku techniques.The author, who has specialized in raku for over twenty years, considers the origins of raku before offering over 300 glaze recipes. A selection of other potters also share their ideas, and with one hundred photographs of raku-fired pieces, Fired Up With Raku offers inspiration to all potters and is an invaluable source of information and advice for all ceramicists. Includes over 300 glaze recipes. Superbly illustrated with one hundred colour photographs of raku-fired pieces. Irene Poulton has specialized in raku firing for over twenty years and her work is exhibited in both Australia and the USA.
Download or read book Naked Raku and Related Bare Clay Techniques written by Eduardo Lazo and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a variety of approaches, interpretations, expressions, and technical prowess. It is the first and a long time coming effort to bring the practice of naked raku into a single reference manual by which the reader can observe, attempt, experiment, and practice with confidence
Download or read book Raku written by Steven Branfman and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This useful handbook guides beginning and intermediate potters through each stage of raku, from its origins and history to clays and glazes, instructions on firing, combustion, and post-firing methods. Includes dozens of recipes. 32-page color section.
Download or read book Contemporary Raku written by Stephen Murfitt and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Raku is a complete guide to this exciting, dramatic and beautiful art form. It explains the making, glazing and firing methods employed for producing Raku-ware, and features contributions and insights from leading makers. Recognizing the deeper values of the practice, the book also considers the influences and sources of inspiration behind the work of these makers. It introduces the necessary tools and equipment, and advises on essential health and safety measures. It explains how to make vessels and forms with step-by-step photo sequences. Recipes for clay bodies and glazes for the beginner and the more experienced maker are included. Details are given on the Raku-firing process and the range of kilns used. Finally, it explores the practice of 'Naked Raku'. With over 300 illustrations, it is a stunning and detailed account to this magical process.
Download or read book Raku Beads written by Sue Wilcox and published by . This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raku Beads teaches you how to make Raku-fired clay beads without needing major technical knowledge. Many of these techniques can be applied to polymer and precious metal clays. The book lists all the equipment you will find useful and points out when you can borrow, do without, or substitute for them. Fully illustrated projects take you through the stages of making many different sorts of beads. It includes a taxonomy to help you come up with new approaches to beadmaking. To give you further ideas, there are interviews with four ceramic beadmakers plus details of how to make their signature beads. Once you've made your beads, Raku Beads shows you the next step of turning them into necklaces and designing your own wearable art. The book teaches all you need to know to make your own clasps, earrings, and various ways of suspending and linking beads together. But no book on ceramics should fail to let you know what can go wrong. Raku is to some extent an unpredictable art - this is its joy and its sometimes infuriating aspect. Raku Beads reveals what can go wrong with ceramics and how to mend it, not do it again, or use it to your own creative ends. There are over 250 pages with more than 530 color photos on making Raku beads. Appendices cover detail on clays and glazes for those who want to know more.
Download or read book Handmade Culture written by Morgan Pitelka and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2005-10-31 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handmade Culture is the first comprehensive and cohesive study in any language to examine Raku, one of Japan’s most famous arts and a pottery technique practiced around the world. More than a history of ceramics, this innovative work considers four centuries of cultural invention and reinvention during times of both political stasis and socioeconomic upheaval. It combines scholarly erudition with an accessible story through its lively and lucid prose and its generous illustrations. The author’s own experiences as the son of a professional potter and a historian inform his unique interdisciplinary approach, manifested particularly in his sensitivity to both technical ceramic issues and theoretical historical concerns. Handmade Culture makes ample use of archaeological evidence, heirloom ceramics, tea diaries, letters, woodblock prints, and gazetteers and other publications to narrate the compelling history of Raku, a fresh approach that sheds light not only on an important traditional art from Japan, but on the study of cultural history itself.
Download or read book Raku Secrets written by Gary R. Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Unveiling The Secrets Of Reiki written by Harish Agrawal and published by Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.. This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Secret of the Fiery Chamber written by Carolyn Keene and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-04-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making it? Or faking it? The ancient Japanese art of raku pottery is highly dramatic -- the colorful one-of-a-kind pots are pulled from the kiln, glowing and red-hot. But when Nancy and her friends visit a local crafts village, Bess is the one who nearly goes up in flames when she's showered with sparks! And that's only the beginning. Nancy's been alerted by Theresa Kim, a rising young artist at the village, that someone is producing brilliantly made fakes and selling them as antiques -- for lots of money. Now the pressure is on for others to join the illegal operation. When Nancy starts to investigate, she discovers that amid the beautiful treasures lurks a very clever -- and dangerous -- counterfeiter. If Nancy doesn't watch her step, she may be the one going up in smoke!
Download or read book Zen and Material Culture written by Pamela D. Winfield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stereotype of Zen Buddhism as a minimalistic or even immaterial meditative tradition persists in the Euro-American cultural imagination. This volume calls attention to the vast range of "stuff" in Zen by highlighting the material abundance and iconic range of the Soto, Rinzai, and Obaku sects in Japan. Chapters on beads, bowls, buildings, staffs, statues, rags, robes, and even retail commodities in America all shed new light on overlooked items of lay and monastic practice in both historical and contemporary perspectives. Nine authors from the cognate fields of art history, religious studies, and the history of material culture analyze these "Zen matters" in all four senses of the phrase: the interdisciplinary study of Zen's matters (objects and images) ultimately speaks to larger Zen matters (ideas, ideals) that matter (in the predicate sense) to both male and female practitioners, often because such matters (economic considerations) help to ensure the cultural and institutional survival of the tradition. Zen and Material Culture expands the study of Japanese Zen Buddhism to include material inquiry as an important complement to mainly textual, institutional, or ritual studies. It also broadens the traditional purview of art history by incorporating the visual culture of everyday Zen objects and images into the canon of recognized masterpieces by elite artists. Finally, the volume extends Japanese material and visual cultural studies into new research territory by taking up Zen's rich trove of materia liturgica and supplementing the largely secular approach to studying Japanese popular culture. This groundbreaking volume will be a resource for anyone whose interests lie at the intersection of Zen art, architecture, history, ritual, tea ceremony, women's studies, and the fine line between Buddhist materiality and materialism.
Download or read book Terry s Japanese Empire Including Korea and Formosa written by Thomas Philip Terry and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Terry s Japanese Empire Including Korea and Formosa with Chapters on Manchuria the Trans Siberian Railway and the Chief Ocean Routes to Japan written by Thomas Philip Terry and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Terry s Guide to the Japanese Empire Including Korea and Formosa with Chapters on Manchuria the Trans Siberian Railway and the Chief Ocean Routes to Japan written by Thomas Philip Terry and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Challenges to Japanese Education written by June A. Gordon and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, eight leading Japanese scholars present their research on profound and sensitive issues facing Japanese society, much of which has not been available to the English-speaking world. Traveling from Japan to engage in a unique forum at the University of California, they joined eminent professors Befu, DeVos, and Rohlen to bring over fifty leading scholars up to date on the global challenges facing Japan and how education has and will play into the reformulation of its identity. Chapters examine such topics as education policy changes, the education of minorities, including the Burakumin, the hegemony of college entrance examinations, social mobility and basic human rights, increased economic competition and global migration, political influences on educational reform, and the future of Japanese education.
Download or read book Raku Firing written by Bill Jones and published by The American Ceramic Society. This book was released on 2009 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced techniques in raku firing; covers production, kiln construction, glaze formulation, tools and more.
