Antique Japanese Netsuke – Types Carvers Marks / Scarce Illustrated Book

Description

202 black-and-white and 24 color captioned photographs, an in-depth index to netsuke carvers and their signatures, and a comprehensive text combine to make this rare out-of-print book an invaluable resource reference.  The photographs “represent a wide variety of outstanding and representative netsuke and thus form a panorama of netsuke history in which all types appear – from the early and comparatively simple to the late and more intricate.”
THE NETSUKE HANDBOOK OF UEDA REIKICHI
adapted from the Japanese by Raymond Bushell, Charles E. Tuttle Co., Vermont, 1961/1976.
This in-depth text covers by chapter:  Netsuke as Related to the History of Sculpture; The Netsuke and Its Types; The Origin and development of Netsuke; Netsuke with Secondary Functions; Netsuke and the Tobacco Pouch; Netsuke Materials (Wood, Ivory and Horn, Metal and Porcelain, Lacquer and Other Materials); Netsuke Subjects and Designs; The Netsuke Artists; The Regional Characteristics of Netsuke (The Kansai Area, the Edo Area, The Chukyo Area, and Other Districts); The Appreciation of Netsuke; The Decline of the Netsuke; The Export of Netsuke; Observations on Netsuke Periods (Early Period, Middle Period, and Late Period); Literature on Netsuke and Netsuke Collectors; Reminiscences of Netsuke Carvers; An Index of Netsuke Carvers; Bibliography; Glossary-Index.  One of the most comprehensive treatments of the subject, this book is an indispensable reference for the serious collector, dealer, or historian of Japanese netsuke.
6.25” x 9.2” hardback with dust cover in very good condition.  325 pages.
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