On Awards for the Japanese Persona

References
There are many good books on Japanese calligraphy and sumi-e painting. A search of Amazon.com produced in excess of 350 books for the searches "Japanese calligraphy," "sumi-e," "Chinese calligraphy," and "Chinese painting." Try these, as well as searches for "Korean calligraphy" and "Korean art," through the Amazon.com link below, but as I have not sampled most of the books contained therein, I can speak neither ill not good of them.

The following are the books that I used in actually putting this class together.

Anderson, D. Calligraphy: The Art of Written Forms. Dover. New York:1992. See main bibliography, linked below, for a review of the book.

Collcutt, M. "Circa 1492 in Japan: Columbus and the Legend of Golden Cipango." In Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration. J. Levenson, ed. National Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: 1991 Very large exhibition catalogue featuring applied art from around the world at the time of Columbus' historic journey.

Diringer, D. The Book Before Printing: Ancient, Medieval, and Oriental. Dover. New York:1982 See main bibliography.

Gaur, A. A History of Writing. Revised edition. Cross River Press. New York:1992. See main bibliography.

Giuganino, A. & A. Tamburello. National Museum Tokyo. Newsweek. New York:1968. Similar to an exhibition catalogue, currently showing up fairly frequently in used book stores.

Gray, B. "Oriental Antiquities." In Treasures of the British Museum. Revised edition. F. Francis, ed. Thames & Hudson. London:1975. Short, popular survey on the holdings.

Mayhall, Y. The Art of Sumi-e Painting. M. Grumbacher, Inc. New York:1976. Very short instructional book on Japanese ink painting (Sumi-e is Japanese for "ink painting."). The author has a more recent work called The Sumi-e Book, which is also quite nice.

Stanley-Baker, J. Japanese Art. Thames &Hudson. London:1984. Popular, inexpensive survey of Japanese art.

Sung, P. Mei-hua hsi-shen-p'u. 1238. Facsimile with translation: Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom. R. Pine, Translator. Mercury House. San Francisco:1995. This is the earliest known printed book of art instruction; Chinese poetry and woodcuts on painting plum blossoms.

Ting, F. Chinese Painting. Dover. New York:1991. Modestly priced book on Chinese ink painting.

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