Japanese cloisonné reading list

Arts of East and West from World Expositions: 1855-1900, Paris, Vienna and Chicago. Tokyo: NHK, 2004. NAL pressmark: 603.AE.1400

Bowes, James L. Japanese Enamels, with Illustrations from the Examples in the Bowes Collection. Liverpool: printed for private circulation, 1884. NAL pressmark: 208.F.3

Bowes, James L. Notes on Shippo. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1895. NAL pressmark: 208.F.4

Brinkley, Frank. Japan, its History, Arts and Literature. Vols. 7 & 8, Pictorial and Applied Art; Keramic Art. Boston; Tokyo: J. B. Millett & Company, 1901-02. NAL pressmark: 5.C.44-45

Coben, Lawrence A., and Dorothy C. Ferster. Japanese Cloisonné: History, Technique and Appreciation. New York; Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1982. NAL pressmark: 208.E.13

Earle, Joe, ed. Japanese Art and Design. London: V&A Publications, 1986. NAL pressmark: 77.L

Earle, Joe. Splendors of Imperial Japan: Arts of the Meiji Period from the Khalili Collection. London: Khalili Family Trust, 2002. NAL pressmark: 604.AF.0063

Harada, Jiro. "Japanese Art and Artists of Today. VI. Cloisonné Enamel Work." The Studio 53 (1911): 271-86. NAL pressmark: PP.73.A

Harris, Victor. Japanese Imperial Craftsmen: Meiji Art from the Khalili Collection. London: British Museum Press, 1994. NAL pressmark: 90.C.59

Impey, Oliver, and Malcolm Fairley. The Dragon King of the Sea: Japanese Decorative Art of the Meiji Period from the John R. Young Collection. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1991. NAL pressmark: NC.92.0528

Irvine, Gregory. Japanese Cloisonné: the Seven Treasures. London: V&A Publications, 2006. NAL pressmark: 603.AG.0218

Irvine, Gregory. "Shippoyaki: the Japanese Art of Enamelling." Arts of Asia 35, no. 5 (September-October 2005): 76-86. NAL pressmark: PP.56.F

Japan goes to the World's Fair: Japanese Art at the Great Expositions in Europe and the United States, 1867-1904. Tokyo: NHK, 2005. NAL pressmark: 602.AF.0929

Kipling, Rudyard. From Sea to Sea and other Sketches. London:  Macmillan & Co, 1904.

Kuwayama, George. Shippo, the Art of Enamelling in Japan. Los Angeles: Far Eastern Art Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987. NAL pressmark: 502.M.218

Meiji no Takara. Shippo - Treasures of Imperial Japan. Enamels. The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Japanese Art 3. London: Kibo Foundation, 2004. NAL pressmark: NE.95.0017

The Modern Era of Shippo, Japanese Cloisonné. Tokyo: Kunaicho, 2004.

Ponting, Herbert George. In Lotus-Land Japan. London: Macmillan & Co, 1910. NAL pressmark: 500.D.163

Salwey, Charlotte M. "Japanese Enamels, Ancient and Modern." Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society 7 (February 16th 1906): 228-42. NAL pressmark: PP.9.E

Schaap, Robert, ed. Meiji: Japanese Art in Transition. The Hague: Haags Gemeentmuseum, 1987. NAL pressmark: 507.C.121

Shaffer, Coral. "Enamelling in Japan - an American's Experience." Glass on Metal, the Enamellers Newsletter 9, no. 3 (June 1990): 56-57 & 60-61; 9, no. 4 (August 1990): 84-86; 9, no. 5 (October 1990): 96-98. NAL pressmark: PP.7.A

Suzuki, Norio, and Sakakibaru Satoru. Nihon no Shippo. Kyoto: Maria Shobo, 1979. NAL pressmark: J.O.152

Suzuki, Norio. "Shippo." Nihon no Bijutsu 3, no.322 (1993). NAL pressmark: PP.J.O

Yoshino, Gary. Japanese Cloisonné Enamels: A Private Collector’s Notes and Reference Guide. Gary Yoshino & Associates, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-9795303-1-9. NAL pressmark 603.AK.0161

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