Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan: Materials, Makers, and Mastery Guth Christine M. E.
Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan: Materials, Makers, and Mastery Guth Christine M. E. Articles crafted from lacquer, silk, cotton, paper, ceramics, and iron were central to daily life in early…
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Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan: Materials, Makers, and Mastery Guth Christine M. E.
Articles crafted from lacquer, silk, cotton, paper, ceramics, and iron were central to daily life in early modern Japan. In this innovative study, Christine M. E. They were powerful carriers of knowledge, sociality, and identity, and their facture was a matter of serious concern among makers and consumers alike.
Her study throws into relief the confluence of often overlooked forces that contributed to Japan's diverse, dynamic, and aesthetically sophisticated artifactual culture. 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. 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