Inro and Netsuke: Tokyo National Museum Collection [Hardcover]

Tokyo National Museum (Editor)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 250 pages
• Publisher: Nigensha Publishing (March 1, 2001)
• Language: Japanese
• ISBN-10: 4544024013
• ISBN-13: 978-4544024012
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,158,108 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Shuda bin furukororu BUT BUY IT BUY IT BUY IT ANYWAY!!!, September 19, 2004

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This review is from: Inro and Netsuke: Tokyo National Museum Collection (Hardcover)

Yes, that is correct. This darn book should have been done completely in Color Plates but it was not. In fact, there are only a couple dozen full color plates which almost makes it worse because the reader gets to see what might have been. Still if you love Inro, Netsuke & Ojime you MUST OWN THIS BOOK because, believe it or not, it encompasses the Complete Collection of such in the Tokyo National Museum. Yes, that's correct, the TNM, bowing to complaints from visitors and academics that its public display case is disappointingly unable to show the entire collection, saw fit to catalogue the entire collection of 108 Inro and 565 netsuke for us to have and to hold in one dem fine book. My book is the hardbound, original publication in which there is not a lot of text in English --also not a lot in the Japanese for that matter--just an introduction and then a complete list of articles including material, approximate date, subject and whether it is from the 'Goh' Collection. The book is photographed beautifully, with the Inro photographed front and back where there is a difference between the two, and there is often a miniature photo of the artist's mark dependent, I suppose, upon whether there is one. The beauty of this collection is that many of these Inro are quite old, made before the objects were commonplace, and also that Mr. Goh was able to obtain many of his objects whole. That is to say that his Inro come complete with accompanying Netsuke & Ojime. Thus the original intent of the artist is there for us to see. This is a really great book, I just wish that it was entirely in Color, thus just four stars for this five star book!