Traditional Japanese Crest Designs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Traditional Japanese Crest Designs write by Clarence Hornung. This book was released on 1986-01-01. Traditional Japanese Crest Designs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Family crests (mon) have been a Japanese tradition since the eleventh century, when they decorated the costumes and carriages of courtiers. Later, they were used to identify warriors on the battlefield, as heraldic decorations on formal costumes, and as ornament on the kimonos of the common people. Small, compact, and graceful, with a strong sense of style, crest designs are ideal for spot illustrations, as logos, or for any graphic purpose requiring the classic simplicity, purity, and strength of Japanese design. This volume presents a total of 540 permission-free motifs, carefully selected for graphic impact and usefulness from several thousand crests known to exist. Featured are a wide variety of stylized designs depicting plants, animals, natural phenomena, geometric shapes, and manufactured objects.Among the subjects included in this selection are such traditional Japanese motifs as bamboo, crane, lightning, cherry blossom, peony, plum blossom, wave, rice, circle, and hollyhock. Immensely useful, this volume of permission-free designs is not only an invaluable source of graphic material for artists, designers, and craftspeople, but a fascinating picture book of Japanese culture.
Traditional Japanese Family Crests for Artists and Craftspeople
Traditional Japanese Family Crests for Artists and Craftspeople - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Traditional Japanese Family Crests for Artists and Craftspeople write by Isao Honda. This book was released on 2013-01-30. Traditional Japanese Family Crests for Artists and Craftspeople available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over 1,700 compact, graceful designs — a traditional part of many Japanese family histories — are featured in this handsome, versatile collection. Depicting plant, leaf, animal, and fan designs in circular motifs; astronomical images, and more, the authentic, royalty-free crests are ideal for use as spot illustrations in a variety of graphic projects.
Japanese Design Motifs
Japanese Design Motifs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japanese Design Motifs write by Matsuya Company. This book was released on 2012-07-31. Japanese Design Motifs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Definitive catalogue of Japanese heraldic crests featuring almost unlimited variety of plant, animal, bird, and geometric forms, from "wild goose" to "folding fan" to "mountain and mist," each with dozens of variations. 4,260 illustrations.
Japanese Animal and Floral Crest Designs
Japanese Animal and Floral Crest Designs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japanese Animal and Floral Crest Designs write by Paul Negri. This book was released on 2012-04-25. Japanese Animal and Floral Crest Designs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawn from traditional Japanese family crests, this collection presents 1,160 exotic black-and-white patterns, symbols, and decorative devices. They span a tremendous variety of styles, from utter simplicity to florid majesty.
The Elements of Japanese Design
The Elements of Japanese Design - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Elements of Japanese Design write by John W. Dower. This book was released on 1990. The Elements of Japanese Design available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Elements of Japanese Design is a library of traditional Japanese design motifs in the form of more than 2,700 family crests ( mon) compiled and drawn by a Kyoto publisher and bookseller early in the twentieth century, and selected and interpreted by John Dower, a leading American scholar of Japan. First used for identification on the battlefield beginning in the twelfth century, mon developed into symbols of family pride and fortune and quintessential expressions of the Japanese design sensibility--especially in their economy of means, exquisite detailing, and boldness of composition. The motifs employed in these family crests are also a fascinating window into the symbolic system of traditional Japan, which drew from a rich palette of natural phenomena, plants, animals, abstract devices, and manmade objects. This book will be a source of pleasure and inspiration to anyone interested in the basic elements of Japanese design, and of valuable information to anyone wishing to know more about the remarkable culture that produced it.
