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Surveys of Japanese Art by Medium
Ceramics
For a manual on ceramics from ancient to modern times focusing on tools, materials,
and production processes, see Richard L. Wilson, Inside Japanese Ceramics: A Primer
of Materials, Techniques, and Traditions (New York: Weatherhill, 1995), which
contains some 100 black-and-white illustrations. Ceramic Art of Japan (Seattle:
Seattle Art Museum, 1972) provides an overview and illustrates 100 masterpieces (32
in excellent color) from prehistory to the early 19th century. Roy Andrew Miller's
Japanese Ceramics (Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1960), an adaptation of a book
by several Japanese scholars, is a useful general introduction, although most of
the illustrations are in black and white and the scholarship has been superseded
in some details. Also useful (chiefly for the handsome and abundant illustrations)
is Tsugio Mikami, The Art of Japanese Ceramics, translated by Ann Herring
(New York: Weatherhill, 1972). A more specialized study, but highly readable and
richly informative, is a detailed book by Louise Allison Cort, Shigaraki: Potter's
Valley (New York: Kodansha International, 1979). Cort is also the author of an
extremely interesting article, "Japanese Ceramics and Cuisine," Asian
Art 3, no. 1 (Winter 1990): 9-37. Several kiln sites have been the subject of
books. Most of these are listed below in the section on the Edo period, but here
we can add Donald A. Wood, Teruhisa Tanaka, and Frank Chance, Echizen: Eight Hundred
Years of Japanese Stoneware (Birmingham, Ala.: Birmingham Museum of Art,
1994), which covers products from this kiln from the late 12th century to the present.
For an exhibition catalogue of the work of the Raku family over 400 years (with work
by related artists, such as Hon'ami Koetsu), see Seizo Hayashiya, Taka Akanuma, and
Kichizaemon Raku XV, Raku: A Dynasty of Japanese Craftsmen (1997) - a book
that we have been unable to inspect.
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