What distinguished ‘art’ from ‘Art’ ? Types of display, collecting, certain kinds of knowledge becoming matters of profession, etc. A specialised and fascinating study that puts the subject somewhat in the context of concurrent European and American antiquarian habits.
Antiquarians of Nineteenth-Century Japan – The Archaeology of Things in the Late Tokugawa and Early Meiji Periods
£45.00
Edition:Hardback978160606742014/12/2021From a Bookshelf nearby
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Takes the reader from the earliest written accounts to the present in vivid portraits. The empress Masako is there, and presumably princess Murasaki Shikibu, whose diary is not only fascina... read more
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives
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Vintage Japanese crime fiction, by a master of the genre, first published in 1950: the head of a clan leaves a very peculiar will, and its reading is followed by a series of unusual murders.
The Inugami Curse
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A resonant family memoir spanning several generations of women from C19th South China to modern Singapore.
The Interpreter’s Daughter
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A memoir of youth in Henan province and the liberating power of the pen, by a prolific Chinese writer still relatively little known in this country, despite a festoon of international prizes... read more
Three Brothers: Memories of My Family
Hardback £12.99