This is a comprehensive study of the inro, the small lacquer container used by Japanese men wearing traditional dress to carry items in daily use, drawing on the V&A's collection.
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This is a comprehensive study of the inro, the small lacquer container used by Japanese men wearing traditional dress to carry items in daily use, drawing on the V&A's collection.
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VG/VG-. Light soiling and wear to dust jacket. Clean and tight contents. Wine cloth over boards with silver lettering on spine. White and color-illustrated dust jacket; reddish spine with white lettering. 128 pp. 120 color and BW illustrations. Part of the Far Eastern Series. "Since traditional Japanese dress did not include pockets, items of daily use were carried in a variety of different ways. One of the most highly decorative of these was the inro, a small container worn exclusively by men and suspended from a sash by a netsuke (toggle)...The book draws extensively on the V&A's collection of inro, one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world."--dj flap.
