

Book
Daruma: Japanese Art & Antiques Magazine (Set, Volumes 1-70) | Daruma Publishing
Age:1993
Daruma was first published in 1993, as an easy-to-use and to-visually-appreciate the various forms which Japanese people have used over the centuries to express what was of value and appreciated by Asian collectors who grew up in these beautiful artifacts. It has an old and largely unknown history but is clearly an amalgamation of northern and southern peoples and objects used throughout the Pacific's many islands and civilizations. Daruma's issues have created a formable resource on a full range of artifacts which one could only experience by visiting museums to see objects with which Japanese surround themselves today or in past centuries. Having copies of Daruma is one way to educate yourself and surround yourself with the things which the Japanese have created and explained over the centuries in books, exhibitions, and now on the internet, so we are all richer than the upper-class decades ago! We apologize in advance for not selling these on an individual basis.
NOTE: A space number of available editions currently have a fair market value of $14.00US each, (momoko@gao.ne.jp). The shipping weight for the set is 48 lbs., and will be shipped Domestic-Media Mail, or International-Priority because of weight limitations, and Priority Express for Australia because of their current COVID shipping requirements.
Condition: This is an exceptional set of research materials to complement one’s library and for the reader to become a connoisseur of a different corpus of art. Each magazine is in excellent, original, as-published condition. The image illustrates only a portion of the collection/set to give the buyer an overview of the diversity and sampling of topics over the magazines lifetime: Architecture; Furniture/Mingei; Flower Baskets; Militaria: Soldier’s Caps/Armour/Sword Fittings/Arms/Swords; Bonsai; Buddhist Art and Prints; Buddhist Altar Arts; Cloisonne’; Confectionery; Contemporary Carvings; Ceramics/Pottery; Ukiyo-e/Prints/Paintings; Dolls (Ningyo/Friendship Dolls/Hina/Kokeshi); Folk Toys; Glass; Netsuke: Ivory/Inro’; Lacquer; Lanterns/Andon; Metalwork; Coins; Silver; Textile Arts and last but not least Books: Mingei/Japanese Artifacts/Kimono. Fourteen Discontinued Issues: 1,3,5,6,7,10,11,14,15,31,33,34,39,47 are no longer available, out of print, and remain as part of this complete set.