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This is a photographic exploration of the characteristic colours of Japan that have appeared repeatedly throughout the centuries in everything from everyday utensils to works of high art. The Colors of Japan is a visually stunning look into the unique use of color in Japanese culture from prehistoric times to the present day. That the Japanese should possess their own sense of color is not surprising, for like almost every other aspect of human life, color perception varies from culture to culture. The first and most fundamental reason for this variation can be

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<br> Hibi Sadao-one of Japan's foremost photographers--assembles outstanding examples of the way certain colours have been used for centuries. -Daruma: Japanese Art & Antiques Magazine<p><br>. .. stunning photographs ... and elegant design. -American Craft<p><br>

Hibi Sadao-one of Japan's foremost photographers--assembles outstanding examples of the way certain colours have been used for centuries. -Daruma: Japanese Art & Antiques Magazine. .. stunning photographs ... and elegant design. -American Craft

<br> Hibi Sadao-one of Japan's foremost photographers--assembles outstanding examples of the way certain colours have been used for centuries. -Daruma: Japanese Art & Antiques Magazine<br>. .. stunning photographs ... and elegant design. -American Craft<br>

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SADAO HIBI is one of Japan's best-known photographers. He has published some thirty books in Japanese in the field of traditional arts over the last two and a half decades. Among his English publications are Snow, Wave, Pine: Traditional Patterns in Japanese Design; Infinite Spaces: The Art and Wisdom of the Japanese Garden; Japanese Detail: Architecture; Japanese Detail: Cuisine; and Japanese Detail: Fashion. KUNIO FUKUDA graduated in fine arts from Tokyo University of Education (now Tsukuba University) and is presently professor of color theory at Joshibi University of Art and Design. He formerly held positions at the Japan Color Research Institute, the Japan Fashion Color Association, and Kyushu Sangyo University, where he was associate professor. He has written seven books in Japanese on color. The present one is his first in English. With the exception of ten years lecturing at the University of Tokyo, John Bester, a graduate of the School of Oriental and African Studies of London University, has devoted most of his time in Japan to translation. His many literary and other translations include works by Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe, Kenji Miyazawa, and Masuji lbuse. In 1990, he received the Noma Award for the Translation of Japanese Literature in acknowledgment of his achievements in the field.

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