Japanese Design Motifs: 4,260 Illustrations of Japanese Crests Paperback - 1972
by Matsuya Company
The 4,260 individual designs collected here represent the 900-year-old tradition of Japanese family crests. This unabridged republication of the catalog originally compiled around 1913 by the Matsuya Piece-Goods Store in Tokyo contains a translation of the original Foreword plus a new Introduction by Fumie Adachi and a new English Index.
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This collection presents more than 4,000 individual designs in the 900-year-old tradition of Japanese family crests. Through constant variation and invention over the centuries, this has become one of the richest graphic art traditions in the world.
Most of these motifs are circular, and they can all be fitted into a square. Within those limitations is a seemingly endless range of designs, beginning with the dozens and dozens of root motifs--rice plant, gingko, scallop, lightning, anchor, spool, raft, candle, scissors, fern, saki bottle, lotus blossom, mountain arrow, pine, wisteria, ship, rabbit, and scores of others. Practically every kind of plant, bird, animal, natural phenomenon, and manufactured object of Japanese culture was at one time or another included in a family crest. In addition, each of the root designs was treated to dozens of imaginative variations--they were reproduced bilaterally, in triangles, diamonds, five- and six-pointed stars, in spirals, were built up in series, made to overlap, combined with each other, and so on. Some of these are classic and recognizable designs, like the yin-yang, linked rings, and treasure knot. Many of the others have rarely been seen in the West.
Graphic artists, textile designers, pattern-makers, advertisers, and other commercial artists looking for an untapped source of novel, appealing designs will find a wealth of material here. Some of these motifs can be used to suggest an exotic flavor, and others are universal and can be used almost anywhere.
Dover unabridged publication of the catalog originally compiled around 1913 by the Matsuya Piece-Goods Store, Tokyo.
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- Title Japanese Design Motifs: 4,260 Illustrations of Japanese Crests
- Author Matsuya Company
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Revised
- Pages 213
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dover Publications, New York
- Date 1972-06-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780486228747 / 0486228746
- Weight 1.49 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 8.32 x 11.34 x 0.61 in (21.13 x 28.80 x 1.55 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
- Library of Congress subjects Devices (Heraldry) - Japan, Heraldry - Japan
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 72086225
- Dewey Decimal Code 929.8
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