Netsuke Masks / Raymond Bushell

Bushell, Raymond

ISBN 10: 0870117106 / ISBN 13: 9780870117107

Published by Tokyo ; New York : Kodansha International ; New York : Distributed By Harper & Row, 1985

About this Item

An exceptional copy; fine in title-printed cloth. Complete with a fine, printed, stiff-card slipcase. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 206 pages; An impressive volume, abundantly illustrated. Description: 206 p. : ill. (some col. ) ; 31 cm. Subjects: Netsukes. Masks. 2 Kg.

Seller Inventory # 70730

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Netsuke Masks / Raymond Bushell
• Publisher: Tokyo ; New York : Kodansha International ; New York : Distributed By Harper & Row
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870117106
• ISBN 13: 9780870117107
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis

Netsuke are small toggles or buckles carved from wood or ivory. The Japanese in the seventeenth century used them to fasten pouches to their kimono belt, since kimonos had no pockets. This lavishly illustrated book takes the reader on an exciting tour of one type of netsuke—those carved to look like the masks used by stage actors.

About the Author

Raymond Bushell, attorney, collector, and netsuke authority, is known to netsuke collectors for his adaptation into English of The Netsuke Handbook of Ueda Reikichi, an important work on the subject. He is the author of The Wonderful World of Netsuke, An Introduction to Netsuke, Netsuke Familiar and Unfamiliar, The Inro Handbook, The Art of Netsuke Carving, and Collectors' Netsuke. He is also a frequent contributor of articles to Arts of Asia, The Journal of International Netsuke Collectors, and The Netsuke Kenkyukai Study Journal. He arrived in Japan with the American occupation forces in 1945 and lived there until 1990 practicing law, collecting, and studying netsuke, inro, and sword furnishings.