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Japanese netsuke / Julia Hutt ; photography by Ian Thomas and Richard Davis ; [foreword by Edmund de Waal].

By: Hutt, Julia [author]
Contributor(s): De Waal, Edmund [writer of foreword] | Thomas, Ian [photographer] | Davis, Richard [photographer] | Victoria and Albert Museum
Language: English Series: : Publisher: London : V & A Publishing, 2012Description: 112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781851777020 (hbk.); 1851777024 (hbk.)Subject(s): NetsukesDDC classification: 736.68 LOC classification: NK6050
Contents:
Netsuke: an introduction -- Origins and early development of netsuke -- Function and forms of netsuke -- Materials, technique and manufacture of netsuke -- Netsuke subjects and design sources -- Aspects of dating netsuke and chronological groupings -- Netsuke craftsmen and centres of production -- Collecting netsuke.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Asia Japan NK6050 H88 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00054978
Total holds: 0

"Not a catalogue but a book about netsuke, illustrated largely by material from the V & A."--T.p. verso.

Originally published: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-110) and index.

Netsuke: an introduction -- Origins and early development of netsuke -- Function and forms of netsuke -- Materials, technique and manufacture of netsuke -- Netsuke subjects and design sources -- Aspects of dating netsuke and chronological groupings -- Netsuke craftsmen and centres of production -- Collecting netsuke.