1982
Spring
Volume 2, No.1
Summer
Volume 2, No.2
Fall
Volume 2, No.3
Winter
Volume 2, No.4
Spring 1982, Volume 2, No.1
- The Cover
- From Your Editor
- Letters
- President’s Message
- Membership Corner
- The Making of a Netsuke Collection
- Kokusai and His World—Part One
- Humor in Netsuke
- Portrait of a Collector—Dave and Sandy Swedlow
- Parallels in Japanese Art and Netsuke—Mon and the Japanese Heraldic System
- Q & A Forum
Cover:
Red Man-Kirin or Shokuin? (See Letters) Wood, negoro lacquer with gold. 18th C. For fuller discussion see Real and Imaginary Beings, Okada and Neill, pp. 29-30. Collection of Joseph Kurstin
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Summer 1982, Volume 2, No.2
- The Cover
- From Your Editor
- Letters
- President’s Message
- Membership Corner
- Early Elephant Ivory Netsuke
- In Defense of Manju
- Collecting Can Be Fun...and Rewarding
- Yesterday Versus Today
- Portrait of a Collector—Ann Meselson
- Q & A Forum
Cover:
Stylized Dog. Ivory, signed Bisshu, a contemporary artist. Copied from a 300 year old Nanban screen in Japan. Richard Silverman Collection.
Fall 1982, Volume 2, No.3
- The Cover
- From Your Editor
- Membership Corner
- Letters
- President’s Message
- Kokusai and His World Part II
- Kano Tessai and His (School of) Followers
- Manju - A Further Defense
- Collector Beware
- Portrait of a Collector—Jerome Spiller
- Why We Collect
Cover:
Kiseruzutsu (pipecase). Signed Tokoku with gold seal Bairyu. 20.5 cm. Original pipe by Hogen Haruaki. For further description see Kokusai and His World herein.
Winter 1982, Volume 2, No.4
- The Cover
- From Your Editor
- President’s Message
- Membership Corner
- Letters
- Q & A Forum
- Staghorn Figure Netsuke
- Portrait of a Collector—Virginia Atchley
- Random Thoughts on Netsuke Aesthetics
- The 1893 Auction Catalog of Dr. J. D. C. Titsingh
Cover:
We are soliciting responses from our readers concerning this netsuke. See Q & A Forum. Photography by Michael B. Glass.