Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan: Materials, Makers, and Mastery

✍ Scribed by Christine M. E. Guth

Publisher: University of California Press
Year: 2021
Tongue: English
Leaves: 264
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

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