From the front pages of this publication, entitled in English Inspired Design: of Japan Traditional Arts, the reader is plunged into a description of the Japanese nature, the island of Hokkaido in the North, covered with Siberian forests, in that of Okinawa in the South, where reigns a subtropical climate. He pursues his discovery through artisans / artists' works which, in natural materials, of animal origin, vegetable or mineral, realize objects in the extraordinary forms. The author describes it the specific characteristics of the Japanese design, the fruit of different influences allying those of the nature, in the aesthetic principles Zen, by way of that of the bosses of the ceremony of the tea, etc....
Quite contributing(competing) to the development of a high-level artistic production, strongly marked by the genius locii. The book opens on objects realized in materials of animal origin (ivory, scale of tortoise, horn of deer, leather, skin of shark), then draft of materials of vegetable origin (wood, bamboo, rattan, lacquer, jute and linen) and approaches finally the materials of mineral origin (stone, ceramic, bronze and iron). This work will interest as well the readers fascinated by Japanese culture as the designers, the creators of mode(fashion) and the artists.
A glossary of the vernacular terms encloses the publication.
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