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"From Japan's first forays onto the international stage of world's fairs in the late nineteenth century to the dynamic creativity of the 1920s and 1930s, and from the heady post-World War II period to the present day, Japanese craft art has exhibited a rich diversity of media and techniques. One of the first illustrated surveys in English of modern-era Japanese crafts - including ceramics, lacquerware, metalcraft, and wood - this elegant book is an invaluable guide for the collector and scholar." "Focusing on an important collection of Japanese crafts being given to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the text discusses the artists and ideas that shaped and defined the aesthetic of twentieth-century Japan, noting that this nation - which deeply appreciates and fosters its craft traditions - hails its artists as "living national treasures." The book also includes artists' biographies and reproductions of their signatures and marks."--Jacket.

Artisans --- Decorative arts --- Handicraft

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The Kano lineage of painters--the most important in Japan--was established in the late 15th century by Kano Masanobu (1434-1530) and continued for more than 400 years, until the early 20th century. Originally limited to successive generations of the Kano family, it soon developed into a school of professional artists. This is the first and most comprehensive book published outside of Japan to address the Kano painters. Lavishly illustrated, this important volume focuses on the large-scale screens and sliding doors that were designed for the residences of powerful rulers, together with smaller works such as scrolls, albums, and fans. These works-for sites including shogunate residences, Zen temples, teahouses, and homes of wealthy merchants-demonstrate the range of styles that Kano artists employed to suit the tastes of their varied patrons. Essays by leading scholars address the wide range of Kano motifs and styles and also consider the particular influence of Kano Tan'yu (1602-1684). A dictionary of Kano artists' seals and signatures, a type of resource published here for the first time, provides an important reference, as does an appendix of images from the most significant album by Tan'yu. Exhibition: Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA (14.2.-10.5.2015).

Kanō School --- Painting, Japanese --- Seals (Numismatics) --- Japanese painting --- Nihonga --- History. --- J6230 --- J6015.11 --- Japan: Art and antiquities -- painting and drawing -- Chinese schools --- Japan: Art and antiquities -- musea, exhibitions, collections, fairs in North America -- United States --- History

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"Hinges: Sakaki Hyakusen and the Birth of Nanga Painting is the first US exhibition focusing on the art of Sakaki Hyakusen (1697-1752), the founding father of Nanga school painting in Japan. The exhibition, together with a fully illustrated catalog and extensive public programs, will demonstrate Hyakusen's pivotal role as a key figure in the transformation of Japanese painting of the eighteenth century. Highlighting the recent conservation of Landscape, a pair of six-fold screens by Hyakusen, alongside Chinese landscape paintings by traditional masters and works by Nanga school painters, the exhibition promises to add significantly to public understanding of the art of conservation and important crosscultural and artistic connections between Japan and China. With a foreword and introductory essay by curator Julia White, the fully illustrated catalog will include approximately fifty images, and three additional essays. A special chapter on conservation techniques and best practices in East Asian painting adds essential information on a contemporary area of interest. Published in association with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)"--Provided by publisher.

Nanga --- Sakaki, Hyakusen,