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Japanese Design Motifs: 4,260 Illustrations of Japanese Crests

Japanese Design Motifs: 4,260 Illustrations of Japanese Crests

Matsuya Company

Paperback

Series: Dover Pictorial Archive

General DesignInterior Design

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 0486228746
ISBN13: 9780486228747
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Jun 1 1972
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.49
Height: 0.61 Width: 11.34 Depth: 8.32
Language: English

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.

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