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The life of animals in Japanese art
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Singer, Robert T. (editor)
- Kawai, Masatomo (editor)
- Publisher
- Washington, District of Columbia : National Gallery of Art ; Tokyo, Japan : The Japan Foundation ; [Los Angeles, California] : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Princeton, New Jersey : In association with Princeton University Press,
- Call Number
- 06.1 Si6t O.S.
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- Responsibility
- Robert T. Singer
- Masatomo Kawai
- Publisher
- Washington, District of Columbia : National Gallery of Art ; Tokyo, Japan : The Japan Foundation ; [Los Angeles, California] : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Princeton, New Jersey : In association with Princeton University Press,
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- xix, 323 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits
- Subjects
- Japan
- Japanese
- Exhibitions
- Art
- History
- Abstract
- A sweeping exploration of animals in Japanese art and culture across sixteen centuries. Few countries have devoted as much artistic energy to the depiction of animal life as Japan. Drawing upon the country's unique spiritual heritage, rich literary traditions, and currents in popular culture, Japanese artists have long expressed admiration for animals in sculpture, painting, lacquerwork, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, and woodblock prints. Real and fantastic creatures are meticulously and beautifully rendered, often with humor and whimsy. This beautiful book celebrates this diverse range of work, from ancient fifth-century clay sculpture to contemporary pieces. The catalog is organized into themes, including the twelve animals of the Japanese zodiac; animals in Shinto and Buddhism; animals and samurai; land animals, winged creatures, and creatures of the river and sea; and animals in works of humor and parody. Exhibition: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA (05.05.-28.07.2019) / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA (08.09.-08.12.2019).
- Contents
- Prefaces / Robert T. Singer, Kawai Masatomo -- A place for animals in Japanese letters : beasts and beasties - pests, partners, and pets / Tom Hare -- Cultivating compassion and accruing merit : animal release rites during the Edo period / Barbara R. Ambros -- All creatures great and small : Tokugawa Japan and its animals / Federico Marcon -- Plates -- Checklist of works exhibited in Los Angeles.
- Notes
- Published on the occasion of the exhibition "The Life of Animals in Japanese Art" held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 5-July 28, 2019, and the exhibition "Every Living Thing: Animals in Japanese Art" held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, September 8-December 8, 2019.
- ISBN
- 9780691191164
- Accession Number
- P2019-32
- Call Number
- 06.1 Si6t O.S.
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Website of exhibition at National Gallery of Art
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Crows, cranes & camellias : the natural world of Ohara Koson 1877 - 1945
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19790
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2010
- Author
- Newland, Amy Reigle, Jan Perree, Robert Schaap
- Publisher
- Leiden : Hotei Publishing
- Call Number
- 06.1 Ne42c
- Responsibility
- Amy Reigle Newland, Jan Perree, Robert Schaap
- Publisher
- Leiden : Hotei Publishing
- Published Date
- 2010
- Physical Description
- Description: 224 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
- Abstract
- Crows, Cranes and Camellias: the Natural World of Ohara Koson 1877-1945 is the first publication in a Western language to discuss his corpus of work, and it has drawn upon the private Jan Perree collection (now housed in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) for inspiration. First published In 2001, this new edition features an additional chapter on Koson's oeuvre and designs which have been discovered since the original publication of Crows, Cranes and Camellias. Including an overview of Koson's life and artistic career, augmented by a checklist of the majority of his work, select seals and signatures, this book is a valuable source for Koson collectors. --Book Jacket.
- Contents
- Forward
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- A flock of myriad hues : the enduring art of Ohara Koson
- Notes to the catalogue
- Catalogue
- Changes and observations
- Notes to the checklist
- Checklist
- Addendum
- Signatures & seals
- Bibliography
- ISBN
- 978-9004181069
- Accession Number
- p2019-10
- Call Number
- 06.1 Ne42c
- Collection
- Archives Library
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East-West interchanges in American art : "a long and tumultuous relationship"
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14119
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Mills, Cynthia
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
- Call Number
- 06.1 M61e
- Author
- Mills, Cynthia
- Responsibility
- Cynthia Mills, Lee Glazer, and Amelia A. Goerlitz, editors
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 289 p. : col. ill.
- Notes
- "The East-West Interchanges in American Art Symposium was convened at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on October 1-2, 2009. It is one of a series of Terra Foundation for American Art symposia on American Art in a Global Context. The Smithsonian American Art Museum organized the symposium in partnership with the Freer Sackler Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program." Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781935623083
- Accession Number
- 8201
- Call Number
- 06.1 M61e
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Canadian oral history reader
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14573
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Llewellyn, Kristina R.
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press,
- Call Number
- 08.2 L77c
- Author
- Llewellyn, Kristina R.
- Responsibility
- edited by Kristina R. Llewellyn, Alexander Freund, and Nolan Reilly
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press,
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 388 pages ; 23 cm
- Series
- Carleton library series ; 231
- Subjects
- Canada
- Indians
- First Nations
- Japanese
- Museums
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Partial contents: 1. Methodology for recording oral histories in the aboriginal community -- 8. Oral history, narrative strategies, and Native American historiography -- 13. Narrative wisps if the Ochekiwi Sipi past : a journey in rocovering collective memories -- 14. I can hear Lois now : corrections to my story of the internment of Japanese Canadians
- ISBN
- 9780773544963
- Accession Number
- P2015-09-10
- Call Number
- 08.2 L77c
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Finding Japan : early Canadian encounters with Asia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14638
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- Shannon, Anne
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Victoria ; Calgary : Heritage
- Call Number
- 02.1 Sh2f
- Author
- Shannon, Anne
- Responsibility
- Anne Shannon
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Victoria ; Calgary : Heritage
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- 240 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Immigration
- Japanese
- Morse, Edward Sylvestre
- Nitobe Inazo
- Van Horne, William
- Notes
- "Edited by Lana Okerlund"--T.p. verso
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- ISBN
- 9781927051559
- Accession Number
- 2015.8541
- Call Number
- 02.1 Sh2f
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Tamamono : from the collection of the museum of modern art, Saitama
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14645
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Saitama-ken, Japan : The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
- Call Number
- 06.1 T15
- Responsibility
- edited by the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Gen Umezu, Shizuo Okubo, Hisako Okoshi, Miyako Hirayama ; translated by Kikuko Ogawa
- Publisher
- Saitama-ken, Japan : The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- 171 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 30 cm
- Subjects
- Art
- Artists
- Artists books
- Japanese
- Notes
- Includes index
- Text is in both Japanese and English
- Accession Number
- 2015.8546
- Call Number
- 06.1 T15
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The story of the Mount Alberta ice axe
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14825
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Haga, Junko
- Publisher
- Japan :
- Call Number
- PN H34
- Author
- Haga, Junko
- Publisher
- Japan :
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- 35 pages, ill.
- Subjects
- Alberta, Mount
- Japanese
- Notes
- Book is written entirely in Japanese, accompanying document has English text translation, as well as a letter from the author.
- Accession Number
- AC625
- Call Number
- PN H34
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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- Date
- 1800 – 1900
- Material
- metal; skin; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0048 a-c
- Description
- A Japanese samurai sword with dirk and brown scabbard. (a) sword, long curved steel blade attached by brass collar to hilt. Handle of wood with pebbled texture of sharkskin applied and showing through diamond shaped openings left in decorative wrapping with leather strips over handle. Metal cap at…
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- Title
- Fighting Sword
- Date
- 1800 – 1900
- Material
- metal; skin; fibre
- Dimensions
- 7.0 x 6.5 x 72.1 cm
- Description
- A Japanese samurai sword with dirk and brown scabbard. (a) sword, long curved steel blade attached by brass collar to hilt. Handle of wood with pebbled texture of sharkskin applied and showing through diamond shaped openings left in decorative wrapping with leather strips over handle. Metal cap at end of handle has low relief casting of gilded dragonfly on one corner, a small bronze insect is caught below the leather wrapping on either side of the handle. Rectangular sword guard at hilt has incised design and vestiges of gold painted design with a decorative opening either side. (b) dirk, short narrow blade set into metal handle with inlay of bronze in shape of stem with leaves and two seed pods on one side, fits into slit in top of scabbard. Note: part of inlay missing. (c) scabbard, hollow wood shaped to fit the blade and covered with finely textured brown leather. Slots on either side near hilt are banded at top with smooth black strip, wood?, horn?, and further down as well, where dirk enters. Ornate metal cap at tip extends in a strip 16.0 cm along back edge and 5.0 cm along front edge with narrow metal band around scabbard 10.0 cm from tip. Small gilded dragonfly on one corner of cap at tip.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0048 a-c
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Dirk; Scabbard Sword
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- Date
- 1800 – 1880
- Material
- metal; wood; leather; skin; fibre; horn
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0051 a-c
- Description
- A Japanese samurai sword with black cord handle and black scabbard. (a) sword, long curved steel blade connected at hilt with brass to wooden handle covered with white pebbly sharkskin which shows through diamond shapes left open under silk cord which wraps handle. Metal band at base of hilt and me…
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- Title
- Dirk; Scabbard Sword
- Date
- 1800 – 1880
- Material
- metal; wood; leather; skin; fibre; horn
- Dimensions
- 7.4 x 66.6 cm
- Description
- A Japanese samurai sword with black cord handle and black scabbard. (a) sword, long curved steel blade connected at hilt with brass to wooden handle covered with white pebbly sharkskin which shows through diamond shapes left open under silk cord which wraps handle. Metal band at base of hilt and metal cap at its end have relief casting of leaves and blossoms, and a bronze casting of blossoms is caught under black cord wrapping handle, oval sword guard has cut out relief of branches and blossoms, with holes on either side large enough to allow dirk to pass through. (b) dirk, long thin blade set into brass handle with cast relief of heron standing in stream with incised bushes around. Japanese calligraphy on other side of handle. (c) scabbard, slightly curved to fit blade. Wood covered with fine grained leather with narrow black band, horn? at mouth and another at top of slit pocket where dirk slides in. Pocket groove on one side near top to accommodate dirk, and semi-circular black piece of carved horn on opposite side, threaded through with flat braided black silk cord to tie scabbard to belt
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0051 a-c
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Dirk; Scabbard Sword
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- Date
- 1800 – 1880
- Material
- metal; wood; fibre; enamel; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0061 a-c
- Description
- Japanese samurai sword with blue silk cord wrapped handle and black enamelled scabbard: (a) sword, long, slightly curved, steel blade joined to hilt with wide copper band. Wooden handle wrapped with blue silk cord with pebbly white sharkskin showing through diamond-shaped openings in wrapping. Meta…
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- Title
- Dirk; Scabbard Sword
- Date
- 1800 – 1880
- Material
- metal; wood; fibre; enamel; skin
- Dimensions
- 6.7 x 6.0 x 54.5 cm
- Description
- Japanese samurai sword with blue silk cord wrapped handle and black enamelled scabbard: (a) sword, long, slightly curved, steel blade joined to hilt with wide copper band. Wooden handle wrapped with blue silk cord with pebbly white sharkskin showing through diamond-shaped openings in wrapping. Metal cap at end of handle with relief of squatting figure reading scroll. Small cast figures of two deer caught beneath cord on either side of handle. Metal band at base of handle with relief of gilded figure in reed boat. Rectangular sword guard with cast relief of chrysanthemums and butterfly with holes cut through each side to accommodate small dirk handle. (b) dirk, steel bladed with copper handle with relief casting of brass dragon on one side. (c) scabbard, slightly curved wood covered with black enamel containing green flecks, blunt end, top of scabbard has slot on one side leading to pocket in scabbard to accommodate small dirk. Opposite side from slot has semi-circular horn ? lug threaded with a length of black silk cord. Note: small band at top of dirk pocket missing, enamel cracked and peeling in many places, especially near top, semi-circular lug loose.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0061 a-c
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