Ivory and the Aesthetics of Modernity in Meiji Japan

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Ivory and the Aesthetics of Modernity in Meiji Japan is written by M. Chaiklin and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1137363339 (ISBN 10) and 9781137363336 (ISBN 13).

The opening of the ports of Japan in 1859 brought a flood of Japanese craft products to the world marketplace. For ivory it was a golden age. This book examines the role that ivory and ivory carvers played in the expression of nationalism and the development of sculpture in the later nineteenth and early twentieth century.