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Cooperix
07-23-2019, 03:51 PM
Hello Japanese language students,


I have a 6 volume set of books on Japanese ceramics. I bought it 40 years ago at a museum shop in Houston. I was a ceramicist in those years. It's a gorgeous set of books. I'd like to do some research on its publication etc but can't read a word of it. All in Japanese Kanji.

Because I have to make these images so small in order to post I am hoping the lettering is legible??!!
If anyone can translate I'd be delighted.

5834
5835
5836

Gassho

Anne
~lahst~

Jundo
07-23-2019, 11:12 PM
Hah, you are a wonderful artist, but a lousy photographer. :p Actually, your photos of the books are so artistic in their placing that I can't read the authors' names on all of them.

Can you take some clearer pictures of the books' spines with the authors' names at the bottom uncovered? Also, if you open the book, would you take photos of what appears to be the copyright information page? If the book reads from left to right, or right to last, it will be a page with information on the publisher and such that looks like this ...

5842

Gassho, J

STLah

Cooperix
07-24-2019, 01:38 AM
Thank you Jundo! Didn't even realize I was not photographing the authors names. Kanji are like beautiful marks, decorative but meaningless to me.
I'll do a better job tomorrow and will include copyright info page. Books read right to left.

Gassho
Anne
~st~

Cooperix
07-24-2019, 04:59 PM
Jundo,

Hope these are better. First image is of the spines of the 6 volumes.
There is no page that resembles the copyright page you posted so I took a photo of the first page in the volume and the last page which had a 'printed in Japan 1979' included. Maybe that's the copyright page.

spines:
5844
first page:
5845
copyright page?
5846

fingers crossed!!

gassho
Anne
~lahst~

Jundo
07-25-2019, 12:46 AM
Vol 1 - Mino - Shino - Oribe / Seto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mino_ware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shino_ware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oribe_ware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seto_ware

Vol 2 - Hagi / Karatsu / Arita / Agano - Takatori

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagi_ware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karatsu_ware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arita_ware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agano_ware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takatori_ware

Vol 3 - Bizen / Shingara / Iga / Tokoname

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizen_ware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raku_ware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigaraki_ware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iga_ware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokoname_ware

Vol 4 - Kyoyaki / Kutani

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%8D_ware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutani_ware

Vol 5 - Raku / Ohi / Akahada / Shogama (Misc. Kilns)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raku_ware
https://www.city.kanazawa.ishikawa.jp/dentou_e/ceramic/ohiyaki/what/whate.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akahada_ware

Vol 5 - Supplement - Kyoyaki / Kutani / Shogama (Misc. Kilns) / Tea ware Knowledge

SERIES : GENDAI CHAWAN DAIKAN (An Overview/Survey of Modern Tea Vessels)
Published by Shufunotomo Co.,Ltd. (主婦の友社) in 1979

https://www.librarything.com/author/tanikawatetsuzo

Apparently, it was edited by a rather famous fellow, Tetsuzō Tanikawa (谷川 徹三) associated with the Kyoto School.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsuz%C5%8D_Tanikawa
https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=PsBcAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA162&lpg=PA162&dq=Tetsuz%C5%8D+Tanikawa+kyoto+school&source=bl&ots=t2HheRnHf0&sig=ACfU3U0KUnfhV5x0M0Y7GsjTM509ItnzDw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiSwbPY687jAhW6xYsBHdUDBBEQ6AEwAnoECAcQA Q#v=onepage&q=Tetsuz%C5%8D%20Tanikawa%20kyoto%20school&f=false

Gassho, J

STLah

Cooperix
07-25-2019, 11:01 AM
Oh deep bows to you Jundo!
It will be fun investigating these volumes. So far I have only been able to enjoy the images. Which are quite spectacular.


Gassho
Anne
~st~

Meitou
10-28-2019, 07:21 AM
Feeling in dire need of some beauty, I just opened the first link that Jundo posted above; such lovely ceramic dishes, especially the second one, which is breathtaking. I wish I could come to you Anne and learn how to make such things, my experience is limited to packets of Das clay! The books as stand alone objects are a work of art in themselves.
Gassho
Meitou
Sattoday