Overview
Crafts were central to daily life in early modern Japan. They were powerful carriers of knowledge, sociality, and identity, and how and from what materials they were made were matters of serious concern among all classes of society. In Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan, Christine M. E. Guth examines the network of forces—both material and immaterial—that supported Japan’s rich, diverse, and aesthetically sophisticated artifactual culture between the late sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Exploring the institutions, modes of thought, and reciprocal relationships among people, materials, and tools, she draws particular attention to the role of women in crafts, embodied knowledge, and the special place of lacquer as a medium. By examining the ways and values of making that transcend specific media and practices, Guth illuminates the “craft culture” of early modern Japan.
Full Product Details
Author: Christine M. E. Guth
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.590kg
ISBN: 9780520379817
ISBN 10: 0520379810
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 09 November 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"""This is a book that brings the past into conversation with the present, inspiring the reader with its insights into possibilities for the future."" * Monumenta Nipponica * ""This is lavish for a such a concise book, and enables the argument to be carried forward by the visual materials. Overall, the study should become essential reading for scholars of early modern Japan and of Japanese art and culture, as well as historians of science and technology in East Asia."" * H-Net *"
"""This is a book that brings the past into conversation with the present, inspiring the reader with its insights into possibilities for the future."" * Monumenta Nipponica *"
This is a book that brings the past into conversation with the present, inspiring the reader with its insights into possibilities for the future. * Monumenta Nipponica *
Author Information
Christine M. E. Guth led the Asian specialism in the Victoria and Albert Museum and Royal College of Art's History of Design Program from 2007 to 2016. Her books include Art, Tea, and Industry: Masuda Takashi and the Mitsui Circle; Art of Edo Japan: The Artist and the City 1615–1868; and Hokusai's Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon.
