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The text of "Traditional Japanese Chests" covers a wide variety of subject matter, such as the birth and evolution of chests, local culture and regional style, sea chests and distribution in pre-modern times, materials and finishing. Illustrations accompany the comprehensive text, making the book easy to understand even for those who know little about the subject. The large number of metal motifs presented at the end of the book is a good reference for furniture makers and interior designers. The colour pages present chests that are representative of each style, making the book especially useful as a reliable reference for the serious collector who collects or appreciates Japanese chests.
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Kazuko Koizumi was born in 1933 in Tokyo. She received Ph D in Engineering from the University of Tokyo. She has been a leading scholar of traditional furniture for decades, almost single-handedly reviving the study of these traditional objects. She has written more than fifty books in Japanese and around forty research papers, and given more than one hundred and fifty lectures throughout Japan. She has been given awards for her efforts and contribution to establishing the study of traditional Japanese furniture, about which we had known only a little. She has also played an important role as a founder of museums that collect and exhibit valuable and rare traditional Japanese furniture.
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