Japanese Design Motifs 4260 Illustrations of Japanese Crests  -  Adachi, Fumie

4260 illustrations of heraldic crests.

KORTE INHOUD

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, cand...
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1972 Uitgever: Dover Publications New York 216 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0486228746 ISBN-13: 9780486228747