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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
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Inrō – Gürtelschmuck aus Japan | Japanese Belt Ornaments
| Publisher | Arnoldsche |
| Year | 2016 |
| Cover | Hardcover |
| Language | German, English |
| ISBN | 978-3-89790-444-6 |
| Pages | 433 |
| Weight | 2390 g |
| More | |
| Contributors | Uta Werlich, Susanne Germann |
| Article ID | art-28189 |
A comprehensive study of an impressive private collection of Inro: Presenting more than 250 Inro in large format illustrations and including approx. 140 marks reproduced.
The richly illustrated publication presents about 250 Inro from the Anna and Christian Trumpf collection. These small, multipartite receptacles for seals and medicine, which were attached to a belt with the aid of a toggle (Netsuke), came into use in the sixteenth century and remained a prominent accessory in Japanese menswear until the late nineteenth century. The symbolic, often narrative decoration conveys a valuable insight into Japanese culture. Today the carefully and lovingly worked, mostly lacquered inro enjoy enormous popularity in collectors' circles.
Following the inventory of the Trumpfs' significant Netsuke collection published in 2000, another comprehensively annotated standard work on Japanese belt decoration has now arrived.
