This book features over 500 traditional Japanese motifs carefully illustrated and explained in light of their cultural roots. The subjects are taken from the most varied fields: from the art of ukiyoe, with its amazing prints which have had so much fortune and influence in the West, to the stories populated by ghosts and supernatural beings of the very rich local folklore, from the nō theater with its rarefied atmospheres to the wonderful fabrics that give shape to the inevitable kimonos.

The volume also offers some extraordinary graphic creations that interpret and decline various specific motifs, as well as interviews with famous d......
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