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Second edition, first printing, of this finely printed book of patterns designed by Furuya Korin, a Meiji devotee of the Rinpa abstract aesthetic. The publisher, Yamada Unsodo, was renowned for its high level of woodblock cutting and printing. WorldCat records a combined 11 institutional copies of the first and second editions, with none located in the UK.
Pioneered by Ogata Korin (1658-1716), Rinpa used vibrant colours and patterns to decorate paintings, textiles, ceramics and lacquer wares, long before the rise of abstract design in the West. Furuya Korin (1875-1910) studied under Kamisaka Sekka (1866-1942), the leading Rinpa artist of his day. Through his designs and publications, Furuya became "instrumental in the development of Japanese "modern" design in the early twentieth century" (Dover, p. xi).
Description
Two vols, octavo (249 x 178 mm). Original striped paper over card with orange thread musubi toji binding, spines backed with purple silk at head and foot, block-printed calligraphic title labels.
Binding firm, few marks and some wear to wrappers, losses to purple silk, illustrations bright. A very good copy.
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Japanese Noh Theatre
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Performances for the Gods
Ian Ropke writes…
Japanese Noh theatre is one of the oldest dramatic forms in world. The early developments of Noh lie in the festive entertainment of various kinds (dance, simple plays) performed at temples and shrines in the 12th and 13th centuries. Noh drama for much of its history was favored by the samurai, priest and aristocratic classes. Unlike Western theatre, the Noh performer is more a storyteller who suggests the meaning of the play with his movements and through his appearance or costume. Until 100 years ago, the audience was intimately familiar with the plot and the historical or mythological background of the play and knew how to interpret and appreciate symbolic and indirect references to Japanese history, much like early audiences at Shakespeare’s plays.
Nearly all of the Noh plays performed today were written by the start of the 17th century. The vast majority of the core Noh repertoire were written by Kan’ami Kiyotsugu (1333-84) and his son, Zeami Motokiyo (136-1443) in Kyoto. Zeami, as the father of Noh, developed most of the principles upon which Noh theatre has always been based. T