Pleasure and Play in Edo Japan

Canterbury Museum and University of Canterbury, 2009

Published to accompany the exhibition Pleasure and Play in Edo Japan, Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, 2009-2010, this book celebrates the Christchurch Museum's significant collection of Japanese art, along with the historical links and mutual reearch connections between the museum and the University of Canterbury. More than half of the Museum's large and rich collection of Japanese ceramics, bronzes, ivories, lacquer wares, netsuke, tsuba, paintings and woodblock prints was assembled by Sir Joseph Kinsey, a local shipping magnate, in the early 1900s...