Takarabukuro Treasure Bag

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Those of its entries that are decipherable suggest that they were destined to be amplified for inclusion in Takarabukuro . Masanori Watanabe , an authority on netsuke , edited the modern Japanese translation with reference to a ...

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Publisher: Art Media Resources Limited
ISBN: UOM:39015051540865
Category: Art
Page: 182
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In 1974, Raymond Bushell, a passionate netsuke collector, was able to have a photocopy made of the original Takarabukuro (Treasure Bag), a notebook kept by the netsuke artist, Mitsuhiro Ohara (1810-1875), and carefully preserved by his family. In it, Mitsuhiro set down brief descriptions of netsuke he had made, or was in the process of carving. The artist wrote in sosho, a cursive script from Japanese handwriting, best described as 'running script, ' and extremely difficult to read. Misao Mikoshiba undertook the laborious task of making a translation, and endeavor made especially difficult because of Mitsuhiro's handwriting. She produced a remarkable document, which, in the adapted form presented here, is a guide to one artist's creative world.

Language: en
Pages: 182

Takarabukuro (Treasure Bag)

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Categories: Art

Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Art Media Resources Limited

Language: en
Pages: 394

Listen, Copy, Read

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Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-12 - Publisher: BRILL

Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan endeavors to elucidate the mechanisms by which a growing number of men and women of all social strata became involved in the acquisition of knowledge and skills during the Tokugawa period.