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Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan : Materials, Makers, and Mastery / Christine M. E. Guth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guth, Christine M. E., Author.
- Series:
- Franklin D. Murphy Lectures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and technology--Japan--History.
- Art and technology.
- Art, Japanese--Edo period, 1600-1868.
- Art, Japanese.
- Lacquer and lacquering--Japan--History.
- Lacquer and lacquering.
- Women artisans--Japan--History.
- Women artisans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2021]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Introduction
- 1. Natural Resources
- 2. Picturing the Early Modern Craftscape
- 3. Craft Organizations and Operations
- 4. Tacit Knowledge
- 5. Technology, Innovation, and Craft Mastery
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- List of Illustrations
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan
- ISBN:
- 9780520382497
- 0520382498
- OCLC:
- 1266229490
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