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Japanese Design Motifs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

AUTHOR: Matsuya Company
ISBN: 0486228746
SHORT DESCRIPTION: The 4,260 individual designs collected here represent the 900-year-old tradition of Japanese family crests. This unabridged republication of the catalog originally compiled around 1913 by the Matsuya Piece-Goods Store in Tokyo contains a...

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Japanese Design Motifs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
- Book Review, by Matsuya Company

Book Description
Definitive catalogue of Japanese heraldic crests featuring almost unlimited variety of plant, animal, bird, and geometric forms—everything from "wild goose" to "folding fan" to "mountain and mist," each with dozens of variations. 4,260 illustrations. "The 4,260 marvelous heraldic emblems of Japan can be translated into embroidery designs...the shapes are delicate, interesting, and perfect."—Lady’s Circle Needlework.

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Text: English, Japanese (translation)

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Book Review

Japanese Design Motifs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
- Book Reviews, by Matsuya Company

Japanese Design Motifs: 4260 Illustrations of Heraldic Crests

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Definitive catalogue of Japanese heraldic crests featuring almost unlimited variety of plant, animal, bird, and geometric forms--everything from "wild goose" to "folding fan" to "mountain and mist," each with dozens of variations. 4,260 illustrations. "The 4,260 marvelous heraldic emblems of Japan can be translated into embroidery designs...the shapes are delicate, interesting, and perfect."--Lady's Circle Needlework.

SYNOPSIS

Mon, or heraldic designs. Over 4000 typical, beautiful designs: birds, animals, flowers, swords, fans, geometrics; all beautifully stylized.

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