Product Description: An overview of Japanese art from the last four centuries, this newly updated edition is an indispensable survey of the V&A's greatest treasures from the Toshiba Gallery of Japanese Art. The Museums superb Japanese holdings, acquired over a period of 150 years, begin with the international exhibitions of the second half of the 19th century and continue to the present day...read more

With numerous diverse and atmospheric illustrations, this book celebrates tea's contribution to world civilization and culture and includes descriptions of tea's influence on world trade and the process of cultivation and preparation in different parts of the world.

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A celebration of the V&A's remarkable collection of fan prints (uchiwa-e) by the admired early 19th-century ukiyo-e woodblock print artist Utagawa Hiroshige. The collection is published in its entirety: 126 fan prints, which are remarkablefor their vibrant colours and striking design.

Product Description: No Japanese artist is more famous or more beloved than the 19th-century master of ukiyo-e woodblock prints, Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858). Yet one important dimension of his work has never received the attention it merits-the fan print...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ever since Japan opened its doors to the West in the latter half of the nineteenth century, Westerners have been fascinated by the exquisite art forms that flourished during the previous two hundred years of self-imposed isolation...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays by an international team of scholars provides essential background on the administrative, social, and economic, as well as the artistic, history of the Meiji period in Japan (1868-1912).

Product Description: The last twenty-five years have seen a flourishing of Japanese studio crafts that we are only now beginning to learn about in the West. An extensive network of craft practitioners—in ceramics, lacquerwork, woodwork, basketry, textiles, and fiberwork, metalwork, jewelry, and glass—has evolved to produce a huge range of work rich in its diversity of style and technique...read more