Japanese Design Motifs: 4,260 Illustrations of Japanese Crests Harvey Bluedorn In The Mystery

In The Mystery

Author: Eunice Mays Boyd

winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion

but stays just barely out of reach

Japanese Design Motifs: 4,260 Illustrations of Japanese Crests Harvey Bluedorn In The MysteryThis collection presents more than 4,000 individual designs in the 900 year old tradition of Japanese family crests. Through constant variation and invention over the centuries, this has become one of the richest graphic art traditions in the world. Most of these motifs are circular, and they can all be fitted into a square. Within those limitations is a seemingly endless range of designs, beginning with the dozens and dozens of root motifs rice