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    Tsutsumu: Traditional Japanese Packaging

    Tsutsumu: Traditional Japanese Packaging


    $45.00

    • Format: Trade Paperback
    • 208 pages
    • Publisher: Bnn, Inc.; RAM
    • Published: November 2011
    • ISBN-10: 4861007712
    • ISBN-13: 9784861007712

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    The thread holding this wondrous book together is Hideyuki Oka (1905 - 1995), one of the masters of Japanese graphic design and advertising. The pieces shown in the 200-plus magnificent photos here (almost all full-color) are from Oka's personal collection of traditional packaging, using all natural materials such as bamboo, rice straw, hemp twine, paper, ceramics and leaves. The Japanese sense of 'Wa' - an evocative, hard-to-translate term conveying the aesthetic and resonance of traditional Japanese culture - infuses these remarkable examples of art elevating the stuff of everyday life. A garland of eggs or dried fish woven into straw; a ceramic orange designed to hold citrus miso; bright green candies in a hand-hewn pine box - all of these transcend their obvious 'uses.' An impeccable traditional book design that opens from left to right, on beautiful heavy paper, in Japanese only.
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