Kinsey Collection Modern Netsuke The Universe In Your Hands Used

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Contemporary Netsuke: The Kinsey Collection is a bilingual Japanese/English exhibition catalog published in August 2001 by the Chiba City Museum of Art.The book document is a master reference catalog mapping the 20th-century evolution of the craft, capturing approximately 300 contemporary netsuke pieces from the Miriam and Robert O. Kinsey collection, alongside 50 pieces from the imperial collection of H.I.H. Prince Takamado of Japan BOOK IS HAND SIGNED BY ROBERT (BOB) O. KINSEY ON TITLE PAGE AS SHOWN. Robert O. Kinsey was a renowned American author, art historian, and prominent collector who, alongside his wife Miriam Kinsey, came to be regarded as the "parents of contemporary Netsuke". Through their extensive collecting starting in the 1960s and subsequent scholarly publications, the Kinseys are credited with reigniting Western appreciation for traditional and modern miniature Japanese art forms.

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