Netsuke Masks Alain Silver Formal diversity: You’ll encounter traditional

Formal diversity: You’ll encounter traditional tanka and haiku alongside free verse

this volume serves as a comprehensive overview of the poetic trends and themes that defined the decade

Together with help from local residents

The first book on Japanese calligraphy from the significant Momoyama and Edo periods (1568–1868)

He was founder and first president of Adirondack Architectural Heritage

Netsuke Masks Alain Silver Formal diversity: You’ll encounter traditionalNetsuke are small toggles or buckles carved from wood or ivory. The Japanese in the seventeenth century used them to fasten pouches to their kimono belt, since kimonos had no pockets. This lavishly illustrated book takes the reader on an exciting tour of one type of netsukethose carved to look like the masks used by stage actors.