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Kakemono: Five Centuries of Japanese Painting
Kakemono: Five Centuries of Japanese Painting

95.80

Category: Art
Author: Matthi Forrer
Genre: Encyclopedia
ISBN: 9788857243795

Spanning Japanese painting from the 16th to the 19th centuries, this thrilling volume presents a selection of 120 kakemonos from the Perino collection in Italy. The kakemono (literally “hanging thing”) is a Japanese painting or calligraphy, on silk, cotton or paper, contained as a scroll and intended to be hung on the wall.