Product Description: This innovative book narrates the history of a single object--a tea-leaf storage jar created in southern China during the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries--and describes how its role changed after it was imported to Japan and passed from owner to owner there...read more

Product Description: Forbes Symposium proceedings, this volume focuses on Asian ceramics in their many forms and functions-utilitarian, aesthetic, and religious.

Product Description: In 1883, Isabella Stewart Gardner and her husband embarked on a trip that would take them from Boston, across the Unites States and the Pacific, to Japan, China Cambodia and finally, the India of the Raj. Travelling in the wake of recent Western expansion into Asia, they were privileged guests in a world convulsed by colliding forces and identities...read more

Product Description: This is a study of one of the most influential ceramic traditions to emerge from Japan. It details the site of Shigaraki, its valuable wares and the potters who produced them, from their beginnings in the 10th century, to the present day...read more

Product Description: Vietnamese potters combined their own native genius with elements derived from neighboring cultures, including Cambodia, Champa, India, and especially China. Yet their decorative motifs, glaze types, production methods, and perhaps even attitudes toward potting differed distinctly from those of China...read more

Product Description: Book by Cort, Louise Allison, Kenji, Nakamura

Filled with frank reviews of the latest dining, shopping, and nightlife spots, this hip guidebook to the nation's second-largest city covers TV tapings, cemetery tours, scenic drives, star-gazing opportunities, celebrity drive-bys, and other L.A. highlights, with side trips to Disneyland, Catalina Island, and the Orange Coast planned out as well. Original.

Product Description: Gorgeous book; never used but sat on shelf for over ten years. No visible damages but in bright light you can age of cover, both front and back.