This is a limited-edition reprint of the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Japanese artists yet published. The pertinent facts related to approximately 3000 painters, printmakers, sculptors, potters, and lacquerware makers born before 1900 are concisely listed, including their art names (in kanji and romanized), brief biographies, descriptions of their work, collections in which their work is included, and books and periodicals in which their work is discussed or illustrated. Extensive appendixes, glossary, bibliography and complete indexes-including artists by alternate names and Japanese characters-make this an essential reference for all those interested in Japanese and East Asian art.

Dictionary of Japanese Artists: Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics, Prints, Lacquer

Arts & Photography

Roberts, Laurance P.

History & Criticism

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•Reveals the heretofore unknown identity of this 19th-century Easter Island (Rapa Nui) man, and the secrets hidden in his impressive tattoos•Body art reveals amazing insights into Easter Island historyAn impressively tattooed but unnamed Easter Island (Rapa Nui) man appears often in the pages of Pacific Island histories and museum catalogs. The Swedish ethnographer Dr. Knut Hjalmar Stolpe knew him only as Tepano, the Tahitian version of the Christian name Stephen. But what was his real Rapanui identity, and what can his life story tell us about the history of Easter Island?This book reveals his identity, who illustrated him, and how he transcended the tragic events of 19th-century Rapa Nui to become one of the most iconic faces of the Polynesian past. The authors summarize the history of tattoo as practiced by Rapanui artisans, link that history to island geography, and present rare barkcloth sculptures as a visual record of tattoo patterns. This title is the first in a new series on Polynesian Arts & Culture by Mana Press, in partnership with Floating World Editions. For a list of future titles, visit: www.FloatingWorldEditions.com. For more on Rapa Nui, the Mana Gallery and Mana Books, visit: www.eisp.org. An Introduction; The Tattooed Man; The Tattooed Man and Hoa Hakananai a: Rapa Nui, November 1868; The Geography of Rapanui Tattoo: Early Illustrations, Locales, and Key People; Rapanui Tattoo and Colonialism; Rapanui Tattoo Designs and Motifs; Discovering the Tattooed Man: Mataveri, April 1877; Knut Hjalmar Stolpe and Oscar Elkholm: Tahiti, May 1884; The Tattooed Man and Madame Hoare: Tahiti, circa 1870; Madame Hoare and Julien Viaud [Pierre Loti]: Tahiti, 1872; C. B. Hoare, Charles D. Voy, and Thomas Croft: Tahiti, 1873; Alphonse Louis Pinart: 1877; Constance Frederika Gordon Cumming and Alphonse Louis Pinart: 1877; Drawings by Julien Viaud [Pierre Loti]; Identifying Julien Viaud's [Pierre Loti's] Rapanui Subjects; Identifying the Tattooed Man: Viable Candidates; Acknowledgments; Map of Rapa Nui; Glossary; Notes; References.

The Iconic Tattooed Man of Easter Island (Illustrated Life)

Van Tilburg, Jo Anne

Kaeppler, Adrienne L.

Graphic Design

This unique and engaging book offers a penetrating and often humorous look at Japan's healthcare system through the eyes of a young American expatriate manager working for a multinational medical device company. The story chronicles the exploits of John the manager as his feeling and knowledge of Japan follow a common trajectory. First comes idealistic zeal, followed by confusion, despair, and disillusionment that are replaced at last (for those who stay long enough) with understanding, patience, and effectiveness. Written by two insiders who have worked in Japan's healthcare and business worlds for many years, Negotiating the Gray Maze is written in a style and tone that will appeal to a general audience interested in Japan, as well as to the expatriate manager who wants to know what really happens in Japan's healthcare sector.

Negotiating the Gray Maze: The Business of Medicine in Japan

Birt, Michael P.

Colby, Mark A.

Business & Money

I Ching Fortune Gift Cards

The most comprehensive, authoritative, and easy-to-use tool for reading Japanese art signatures is again available, in a limited-edition reprint. Designed for both layman and scholar, its simplified approach allows users to find and identify over 11,000 names of Japanese artists and craftspeople, from all periods and in all media. Includes a sections on reading dates, a list of 300 modified and debased characters, and an index of provinces and place names, plus reproductions of date and censor seals on woodblock prints, publishers' trademarks and seals, and actors' and Genji mon. Indispensable for the scholar or collector of Japanese art.

Japanese Art Signatures: A Handbook and Practical Guide

Self, James

First published in 1980, James Cahill's Index is the most comprehensive English-language compilation available on Chinese painters and their works from the late 6th through the mid-14th century. Incorporating the work of Ellen Johnston Laing and Osvald Siren, whom Professor Cahill studied under as a graduate student, the Index includes biographical details of the artists, their style and studio names, where their works are located or have been published, and information on materials, signatures, seals, and inscriptions. An extensive bibliography focuses on reproductions of the works in Chinese, Japanese, and Western publications, making the Index is an essential research tool for all students, collectors, and connoisseurs of Chinese art.

Index of Early Chinese Painters & Paintings: T'ang, Sung, Yuan

Cahill, James

This extremely valuable reference work remains a fundamental resource for all students, scholars, connoisseurs, and collectors of Japanese art and literature. First published in London in 1882, it is divided into three parts: 1) pottery; 2) illuminated manuscripts and printed books; and 3) lacquer, cloisonne enamels, metal, wood, and ivory. Containing over one thousand illustrations of marks and seals in its 380 pages, it includes charts of both zodiacal cycles and reign periods. With original copies commanding from $400 to $1200, this essential tool for collectors and specialists is now available in a reasonably priced, soft-cover format.

Japanese Marks and Seals in Lit. & the Arts: In Literature and the Arts

Bowes, James Lord

Long out of print, the pioneering work of Koop and Inada remains an important and fundamental reference for those wishing to master the pronunciation of Japanese names. The central feature of the 572-page work is a dictionary of kanji used in writing Japanese names, categorized by stroke count, with a complete index cross-referencing characters by pronunciation Also are included are useful auxiliary references such as the Genji symbols, reign periods and dates, personal names and titles, and typical signatures. With copies of the original 1923 edition commanding from $200 to $800, this essential tool for students, scholars, connoisseurs, and collectors is now available in a reasonably priced, soft-cover format.

Japanese Names & How to Read Them: A Manual for Art Collectors and Students

Inada, Hogitaro

Koop, Albert J.

Pacing the Void: T'ang Approaches to the Stars

In the author's own words, this work attempts to recreate, for the 20th-century reader, the sky and the apparitions that ornament it as they were conceived, imagined, and reacted to by the men of T'ang-dynasty China-that is, to suggest what the medieval Chinese . . . thought they saw in the night sky, and how they treated those magic lights in their active lives, their private commitments, and their literary fabrications. Inevitably, this enterprise meant the exploration of the borderlands where science, faith, tradition, invention, and fantasy overlap. Armed with the new awareness that this fascinating work provides, we can better understand the great legacy of art and literature of this greatest period of cultural flowering in Chinese history.

SCHAFER, Edward H.

Although Chinese sources as early as the first millennium B.C. had mentioned stones as objects of value or aesthetic merit, this 12th-century catalogue is the first whole work in Chinese literature devoted to the subject. By this date the appreciation of viewing stones in gardens and in the studios of scholars had ignited a craze, and Du Wan, a stone collector and descendent of the great T'ang poet Tu Fu, recorded his travels in search of interesting specimens and how and why he acquired them. Professor Schafer discusses the Chinese taste in stones, Tu Wan and the history and nature of his catalogue, and the technology and petrology of the 12th century. His synopsis of the Chinese text describes 144 types of stones with translated abstracts of each, material of great interest to modern collectors of scholar's rocks.

Tu Wan's Stone Cat. of Cloudy Forest: A Commentary and Synopsis

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