Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan
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Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan

Materials, Makers, and Mastery

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  2. English
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eBook - PDF

Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan

Materials, Makers, and Mastery

About this book

Articles crafted from lacquer, silk, cotton, paper, ceramics, and iron were central to daily life in early modern Japan. They were powerful carriers of knowledge, sociality, and identity, and their facture was a matter of serious concern among makers and consumers alike. In this innovative study, Christine M. E. Guth offers a holistic framework for appreciating the crafts produced in the city and countryside, by celebrity and unknown makers, between the late sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Her study throws into relief the confluence of often overlooked forces that contributed to Japan's diverse, dynamic, and aesthetically sophisticated artifactual culture. By bringing into dialogue key issues such as natural resources and their management, media representations, gender and workshop organization, embodied knowledge, and innovation, she invites readers to think about Japanese crafts as emerging from cooperative yet competitive expressive environments involving both human and nonhuman forces. A focus on the material, sociological, physiological, and technical aspects of making practices adds to our understanding of early modern crafts by revealing underlying patterns of thought and action within the wider culture of the times.

Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9780520379817
eBook ISBN
9780520382497
Edition
1
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art General
22
Natural
Resources
Lacquer’s 
connotations 
of 
luxury 
made 
it 
a 
valuable 
natural 
resource. 
In 
the 
early 
modern 
era, 
men 
and 
women 
alike 
were 
deeply 
concerned 
with 
the 
facture 
of 
their 
houses, 
furnishings, 
clothing, 
and 
other 
goods—how, 
by 
whom, 
and 
of 
what 
materials 
they 
were 
made. 
Indeed, 
with 
rising 
standards 
of 
living 
and 
growing 
purchasing 
power 
among 
commoners 
in 
both 
city 
and 
countryside, 
many 
articles 
that 
had 
previously 
been 
luxuries 
now 
became 
necessities. 
e 
flourishing 
market 
economy 
fostered 
growing 
consumption 
across 
all 
levels 
of 
society, 
and 
many 
craft 
professionals 
found 
employment 
in 
the 
manufacture 
of 
goods 
for 
domestic 
use. 
Furniture 
historian 
Koizumi 
Kazuko 
estimates 
that 
by 
1800, 
urban 
households 
owned 
a 
profusion 
of 
arti-
Figure 
1.1. 
Tapper 
preparing 
to 
draw 
sap 
from 
a 
lacquer 
tree. 
Photo 
courtesy 
of 
Guenther 
Heckmann.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. CONTENTS
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Prologue
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. Natural Resources
  11. 2. Picturing the Early Modern Craftscape
  12. 3. Craft Organizations and Operations
  13. 4. Tacit Knowledge
  14. 5. Technology, Innovation, and Craft Mastery
  15. Conclusion
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. List of Illustrations
  19. Index

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