A gift book for anyone interested in Asian arts and crafts, and a colourful historical and cultural primer on Korea, illustrated with over 150 full-colour photographs. Items described include objects such as totems, hairpins, crock pots, temple bells, scissors and gravestones. By exploring the hidden world of Korean objects, the reader should begin to understand the Korean mind and the country's history and culture.

Things Korean

Arts & Photography

Lee, O-Young

History & Criticism

Tuttle+publishing

A Korean critic offers a non-Japanese interpretation of Japanese culture and its tendency to find aesthetic, spiritual, and functional value in the compact and the miniature

Smaller Is Better: Japan's Mastery of the Miniature

History

Yi, Ŏ-ryŏng

Asia

Kodansha USA Inc

A study of Japan's tendency to make the most out of miniaturization - a study of a philosophy of living that reveals the essence of Japanese culture.

The Compact Culture: The Japanese Tradition of "Smaller Is Better"

Kodansha Amer Inc

KOREA STYLE: 64 Objects of Seeing Korea

Design House Publishers

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