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Snow, Wave, Pine: Traditional Patterns in Japanese Design
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Snow, Wave, Pine: Traditional Patterns in Japanese Design Hardcover - 2001

by Sadao Hibi (Photographer); Motoji Niwa


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Plant patterns appeared much later than patterns employing points, lines, and rope figures, making it difficult to find examples of what can definitely be called plant patterns from the Yayoi period or earlier.

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  • Title Snow, Wave, Pine: Traditional Patterns in Japanese Design
  • Author Sadao Hibi (Photographer); Motoji Niwa
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 196
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Kodansha, New York
  • Date August 24, 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9784770026897 / 4770026897
  • Weight 2.6 lbs (1.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 9.7 x 1 in (22.61 x 24.64 x 2.54 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 745.409

About the author

SADAO HIBI is one of Japan's best-known photographers. He has published some thirty books in Japanese in the field of traditional arts over the last two and a half decades. Among his English publications are The Colors of Japan, Infinite Spaces: The Art and Wisdom of the Japanese Garden, Japanese Detail: Architecture, Japanese Detail: Cuisine, and Japanese Detail: Fashion.

MOTOJI NIWA has spent a lifetime researching family names, place names, and family crests. He has written more than eighty titles in Japanese, among them Family Names, Family Lines, Shrine Crests, Temple Crests, On Graves, and The Origin and Beauty of Family Crests.

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