title: Furoshiki: The Art of Japanese Wrapping Fabric
author: Kanako Hamasaki
description: As a graphic designer, Kazuya Takaoka has received many outstanding awards, including the gold medal at the Japan Graphic Design Exhibition and the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for Best Cookbook Design. Among his works are Noh: Classical Japanese Performing Art (PIE Books) and Hokusai Manga (PIE International). Kanako Hamasaki is a founder of Ren which is an organization that produces exhibitions, events, and art projects. Hiroshi Yoda studied photography at the Guildford School of Art, the London College of Communication, and David Montgomerys studio. His photography has appeared in such publications as British Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Queen, Flair, and the Observer.
zlib_text: Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West
  
  A r t i s t i c  D e t a c h m e n t
  i n  J a p a n  a n d  t h e  We s t
  Psychic Distance in Comparative Aesthetics
  STEVE ODIN
  A
  University of Hawai‘i Press
  Honolulu
  
   2001 University of Hawai‘i Press
  All rights reserved
  Printed in the United States of America
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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  Odin, Steve.
  Artistic detachment in Japan and the west : pyschic distance
  in comparative aesthetics / Steve Odin.
  p. cm.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  ISBN 0–8248–2211–0 (cloth : alk. paper) —
  ISBN 0–8248–2374–5 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  1. Aesthetics, Comparative.
  2. Aesthetics, European.
  3. Aesthetics, Japanese.
  I. Title.
  BH85.O34
  2000
  111'.85'09—dc21
  00–062034
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