Product Information
The most comprehensive, authoritative, and easy-to-use tool for reading Japanese art signatures is again available, in a limited-edition reprint. Designed for both layman and scholar, its simplified approach allows users to find and identify over 11,000 names of Japanese artists and craftspeople, from all periods and in all media. Includes a sections on reading dates, a list of 300 modified and debased characters, and an index of provinces and place names, plus reproductions of date and censor seals on woodblock prints, publishers' trademarks and seals, and actors' and Genji mon. Indispensable for the scholar or collector of Japanese art.Product Identifiers
PublisherShambhala Publications INC International Concepts
ISBN-139781891640094
eBay Product ID (ePID)91348496
Product Key Features
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameJapanese Art Signatures: a Handbook and Practical Guide
Publication Year2006
SubjectWriting & Reading
TypeReference
AuthorNobuko Hirose, James Self
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height253 mm
Item Weight690 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorJames Self, Nobuko Hirose