{"id":27949,"date":"2025-03-17T16:30:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T16:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=27949"},"modified":"2025-03-16T13:57:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T13:57:35","slug":"a-grammar-of-japanese-ornament-and-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2025\/03\/17\/a-grammar-of-japanese-ornament-and-design\/","title":{"rendered":"A Grammar of Japanese Ornament and Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Among the new uploads to the Internet Archive is A Grammar of Japanese Ornament and Design<\/em><\/a> (1880) by Thomas W. Cutler. The title is an echo of Owen Jones’ landmark study, The Grammar of Ornament<\/em><\/a> (1856), a much larger volume which devotes several pages to Chinese decoration but says nothing about the Japanese. Japan’s self-imposed isolation from the rest of the world only ended in the 1860s, a restriction which had limited the spread of Japanese culture for over two centuries. Cutler’s book capitalised on the new openness and a growing interest in the country which fuelled a fervour for “Japonisme” among Western artists.<\/p>\n

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Where Owen Jones condensed whole cultures and histories into a few pages, Cutler examines a wide range of Japanese art and decoration, from details of plants and animals as found in ukiyo-e<\/em> prints, to the stylised kamon<\/em> emblems used by Japanese families. His book is distinguished by many pages of precise line drawings, together with reproductions of whole prints. More details like these may be found in the books of waves and clouds<\/a> by Yuzan Mori and Korin Furuya.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Dolmetsch\u2019s Ornamentenschatz<\/a>
\n\u2022 Racinet\u2019s Polychromatic Ornament<\/a>
\n\u2022 Buchschmuck und Fl\u00e4chenmuster by Max Benirschke<\/a>
\n\u2022 Christopher Dresser\u2019s Studies in Design<\/a>
\n\u2022 Christopher Dresser\u2019s Art of Decorative Design<\/a>
\n\u2022 Kunstgewerbliche Schmuckformen f\u00fcr die Fl\u00e4che<\/a>
\n\u2022 Album de la d\u00e9coration<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Grammar of Ornament revisited<\/a>
\n\u2022 Dekorative Vorbilder<\/a>
\n\u2022 Combinaisons Ornementales<\/a>
\n\u2022 Charles J Strong\u2019s Book of Designs<\/a>
\n\u2022 Styles of Ornament<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Among the new uploads to the Internet Archive is A Grammar of Japanese Ornament and Design (1880) by Thomas W. Cutler. The title is an echo of Owen Jones’ landmark study, The Grammar of Ornament (1856), a much larger volume which devotes several pages to Chinese decoration but says nothing about the Japanese. Japan’s self-imposed … Continue reading “A Grammar of Japanese Ornament and Design”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: A Grammar of Japanese Ornament and Design","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,4],"tags":[2426,13892],"class_list":["post-27949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","tag-owen-jones","tag-thomas-w-cutler"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7gN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}