Netsuke Masks Alain Silver Formal diversity: You’ll encounter traditional

Formal diversity: You’ll encounter traditional tanka and haiku alongside free verse

plus numerous video games and films

The text analyzes how the Christian community maintained its institutional identity and theological cohesion while enduring decades of foreign colonial occupation

The book explores katachi—a complex Japanese concept combining form

Netsuke Masks Alain Silver Formal diversity: You’ll encounter traditionalNetsuke are small toggles or buckles carved from wood or ivory. The Japanese in the seventeenth century used them to fasten pouches to their kimono belt, since kimonos had no pockets. This lavishly illustrated book takes the reader on an exciting tour of one type of netsukethose carved to look like the masks used by stage actors.