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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.
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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
- Cover
- Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Introduction
- 1. Natural Resources
- 2. Picturing the Early Modern Craftscape
- 3. Craft Organizations and Operations
- 4. Tacit Knowledge
- 5. Technology, Innovation, and Craft Mastery
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- List of Illustrations
- Index