9,867円 In the Forbidden City and other palaces around Beijing, Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736-1795) surrounded himself with monumental paintings of architecture, gardens, people, and faraway places. The best artists of the imperial painting academy, including a number of European missionary painters, used We...

3,200円 In diesem Kochbuch soll es vor allem darum gehen, dem Leser authentische, größtenteils japanische Rezepte für die Lunchboxen an die Hand zu geben, die er zu Hause einfach nachkochen kann. Dabei wird es nicht nur Einleitungen für japanische Lebensmittel und wichtige Gadegts, die in der Bentô-Welt ...

1,400円 Étude de l'œuvre d'un maître qui a influencé des générations d'artistes. Hokusai fut d’abord un homme d’école, le camarade et l’émule de ces délicats. Puis, son indépendance géniale lui fit abandonner les systèmes et les disciplines, et tenter toutes les expériences qui sollicitèrent sa libre hum...

9,616円 From the late nineteenth century onwards the concept of Mother India assumed political significance in colonial Bengal. Reacting against British rule, Bengali writers and artists gendered the nation in literature and visual culture in order to inspire patriotism amongst the indigenous population....

1,983円 well-reviewed survey book now updated with current information and reviews adopted as college text at Vanderbilt in Nashville, and U of Missouri St. Louis one of the few non-academic books that takes a generalist view of the subject, making it ideal for educators and people still new to the genre...

3,310円 **"Impressive, exhaustive, labyrinthine, and obsessiveーThe Anime Encyclopedia is an astonishing piece of work." ーNeil Gaiman With over 10,000 entries nothing comes close . . . from classics to hidden gems, all the anime you love is finally at your fingertips. This 3rd edition of The Anime Encyc...

4,642円 "A sumptuous, beautiful collection of cyborgs, sushi, and monsters this book is a feast for the eyes and a phosphorescent display of creativity. Other than watching an octopus make love to a rainbow, I can’t think of anything I’d rather stare at than this book." Matthew Inman, creator of The Oa...

11,772円 The Thiri Rama – or the Great Rama – was written for court performance and is the only known illustrated version of the Ramayana story in Myanmar. Based on palm-leaf manuscripts and scenes carved on over 300 sandstone plaques at a mid-nineteenth-century Buddhist pagoda west of Mandalay in Myanmar...

927円 The Guggenheim Reader Series: Modern Asian Art is the second installment in an ongoing series collecting out-of-print and hard-to-find essays from past Guggenheim publications and lectures to illuminate focused topics in art history. Much like last fall’s Russia reader, Modern Asian Art examines ...

1,326円 Arts of Korea invites readers to explore one of the finest collections of Korean art outside East Asia, in an enhanced e-book that features 360-degree photographs of selected treasures that can be rotated with the touch of a finger. The MFA enjoys particularly superb holdings of ceramics, includi...

416円 An exploration of the roots of beauty in Japanese aesthetics. Written by the foremost authority of the era on Oriental archeology and art, this extremely influential book offers a brief but concise introduction to Asian art. First published in 1883, it responded to a vogue in Western culture for ...

4,934円 An inkstone, a piece of polished stone no bigger than an outstretched hand, is an instrument for grinding ink, an object of art, a token of exchange between friends or sovereign states, and a surface on which texts and images are carved. As such, the inkstone has been entangled with elite masculi...