Nowhere in the world have architects built homes as small as in Japan, and nowhere have they done so with such ingenuity and success. How to Make a Ja panese House presents 21 lessons in how to design a single-family home from three decades of architectural practice. From the Western perspective, in which more space is better space, small interiors may once have seemed unde sirable, but Japanese architects have long excelled at overcoming the limit ations of building in densely populated areas and creating brilliant effect s of spaciousness with minimal square footage. As urban areas across th... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This book explores specific achievements in Japanese art and architecture, but also offers an in-depth analysis of the whole of Japanese culture, its vision of the world and of humankind. The book is divided into three main sections. In the first, Irregular Beauty, the author delineates the different aspects of Japanese culture and draws interesting connections between art, architecture, religion, philosophy and mythology. For example, he explains the... View More...
This rare SIGNED copy from the artist Ezoe Eiichiro with an introduction in English and Japanese, is illustrated throughout with bilingual text next t o each colour plate. View More...
The authors of this massive work take a unique approach to their huge subje ct. Rather than looking at Japanese art chronologically, they take individu al media (ceramics, architecture) or ideas (literature into art, nature) an d discuss Japanese artists' use and treatment of each. This nontraditional approach is quite thought-provoking and enables the reader better to unders tand Japanese art as a whole. The text could be more coordinated with the p lates, but their sheer numbers (176 magnificent color, 361 clear black-and- white) provide a wealth of study material. There are also 222 views, ... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This book is a unprecedented doorway into the contemporary Japanese creative scene: the staff of the hyper-connected Japanese magazine QUOTATION introduces the creme de la creme of that nation's creative producers from an array of media to the rest of the world. Editor-in-chief Toru Hachiga says it doesn't matter if the person, place or product is famous, just that it's worthy. Examples include JAN, a ''creative unit'' in the fixed-gear bike and skate... View More...
Shunga portrays the erotic expression of a couple with pleasures and pains, and the beauty of their bodies with the finest Japanese woodblock print te chnique. It is a type of Ukiyo-e, which was especially all the rage among p eople in the Edo period (17th-19th century). Almost all ukiyo-e artists mad e shunga at some point in their careers. This big book of 586 pages feature s various Shunga works by masters of Ukiyo-e artists such as Hokusai Katsus hika, Utamaro Kitagawa, Kuniyoshi Utagawa, Kiyonaga Torii, and Eisen Keisai . The magic by Kazuya Tkaoka, art director for this book, and our suc... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
A well-known figure in the wedding dress industry, Eri Matsui (current name Ema Rie, altered in November 2017) is also a cutting-edge fashion designer who incorporates mathematics and science into her garments. This collectio n follows her quest to answer the question, What are clothes? from the pers pective of science, art and philosophy. Designed with scientific rigor, her clothes speak to the senses of the viewer. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
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