Wave Cloud Pine Traditional (6 results)

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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. text clean and unmarked. binding tight. covers have light wear. edges of pages have light wear. dust jacket has very light wear.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Paper in jacket with belly band jacket. Spine creased, binding a bit shaken but holding. 2006 Trade Paperback. 397, [2] pp. Japanese text. This beautifully illustrated volume presents Japanese paintings, textiles, and traditional crafts which feature three highly significant motifs of Japanese culture: waves, clouds, and pines. One of the most iconic and enduring images from Japanese art is Hokusai's famous Great Wave, a painting largely credited with inspiring the French artists of the nineteenth century, mainly the impressionists, to see depth and perspective from a unique, perhaps Japanese, viewpoint. The Japanese have many different words for clouds, the use of which depends on the season, the shape of the cloud, or the particular situation. Clouds in Japanese art are often depicted in unique iconography that is in sharp contrast to traditional Western portrayals. In early Japanese society, traditional performing arts, including Noh, were often performed under pine trees. Pine trees are regarded as sacred objects and are still often seen in the backgrounds of Noh theaters today. It is rare for a Japanese artist or photographer to present an aesthetically beautiful landscape without pine trees, as is evident in the many illustrations and photographs in this book. Over 120 works dating from the fifteenth century through the present are featured in Wave, Cloud, Pine.…

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Basic shelf wear. Mostly written in Japanese.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Trade paperback with dust jacket, Near-Fine, 8vo, 397 pages. Black and gray illustrated stiff wrappers with spine titles in white, color illustrated dust jacket, copiously illustrated with full-page color and black-and-white plates. 2nd printing. Few creases to spine, else very light wear; very nice clean copy. Bookseller accession no.: L21591. …

Condition: gut. Wave, Cloud, Pine: Traditional Patterns in Japanese Design In deutscher Sprache. pages.