QI GONG LUN SHUFE (QI GONG ON CALLIGRAPHY); ( )
Hangzhou, China: Wenwu Publishing, 2001. Paperback. IN CHINESE ONLY. Quarto (12 1/2 in. x 7 3/4 in.). Blue paper covers, stab-bound loose pages, paste-on title strip to front. Black characters, red symbols, light green "watermark" designs within the lovely folded sheets of laid paper. Qi Gong (1912-2005) was an important cultural figure and a professor at Beijing Normal University,. as well as a painter, master calligrapher, and poet. This collection consists of one hundred of his "Quatrains" (poems of four lines, seven characters or syllables per line). The work includes some concluding general notes on callligraphy. Very Good. Item #100068
ISBN: 7501012539
"...By the time the book trade in Japan became established, in the Tokugawa or Edo period (1603-1867), the form known as fukuro-toji was the most common type of Japanese binding. Practised in China early as the Tang period, widespread by the Ming dynasty period (1368-1644), and transmitted to Japan in the Muromachi period (1392-1573), by end of which, in the late 16th century, it had become the standard form for printed books. Each page had printed or handwritten text on one side only, folded with the text on the outside, and placed on top of its predecessor; assembled pages are sewn together, the stitches passing through the blank margins next to the loose edges, so the sewn edges form the spine and folds form the edges of pages. This stringbound style continued through the Meiji period..." (American Bookbinder's Museum, San Francisco).
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