Apr 1978
VOLUME 9 - NUMBER 4
Kogo: Japanese Incense Boxes
Malacca of Memories
A Village in Guam
Ayurvedic Medicine
Cover. A kogo, or Japanese incense box for chanoyu (tea ceremony) use, c. 1870. It is of unglazed white earthenware with polychrome painted decoration, portraying a Noh drama character. This kogo is one of some 3,500 assembled by the late French statesman Georges Clemenceau, the largest and finest collection in the world. Acquired by the late Joseph Arthur-Simard of Montreal, the collection was donated to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts which has loaned it to the Indianapolis Museum of Art for a special US exhibition.
FEATURES
Lisa Beebe. Thai New YearTan Kok Seng. A Secret Letter from Malaysia
Anne Scott. Burma: Legacies of Colonialism
Malacca of Memories
Visions of Southern Guam
Yutaka Mino and Katherine Tsiang Courtesy, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Indianapolis Museum of Art. Kogo Rediscovered
Pepita Fairpax. India’s Ayurvedic medicine
M. Foster Farley. Alexander in Pakistan (II)
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Rene Q. Bas. Manuel Baldemor: Baroque Joys and Basal Skills
Nigel Cameron. Book Review: The Last Empire
NEWS
Crab Claws of Taipei
Discoveries
VOLUME 9 - NUMBER 4
Kogo: Japanese Incense Boxes
Malacca of Memories
A Village in Guam
Ayurvedic Medicine
Cover. A kogo, or Japanese incense box for chanoyu (tea ceremony) use, c. 1870. It is of unglazed white earthenware with polychrome painted decoration, portraying a Noh drama character. This kogo is one of some 3,500 assembled by the late French statesman Georges Clemenceau, the largest and finest collection in the world. Acquired by the late Joseph Arthur-Simard of Montreal, the collection was donated to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts which has loaned it to the Indianapolis Museum of Art for a special US exhibition.
FEATURES
Lisa Beebe. Thai New YearTan Kok Seng. A Secret Letter from Malaysia
Anne Scott. Burma: Legacies of Colonialism
Malacca of Memories
Visions of Southern Guam
Yutaka Mino and Katherine Tsiang Courtesy, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Indianapolis Museum of Art. Kogo Rediscovered
Pepita Fairpax. India’s Ayurvedic medicine
M. Foster Farley. Alexander in Pakistan (II)
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Rene Q. Bas. Manuel Baldemor: Baroque Joys and Basal Skills
Nigel Cameron. Book Review: The Last Empire
NEWS
Crab Claws of Taipei
Discoveries
VOLUME 9 - NUMBER 4
Kogo: Japanese Incense Boxes
Malacca of Memories
A Village in Guam
Ayurvedic Medicine
Cover. A kogo, or Japanese incense box for chanoyu (tea ceremony) use, c. 1870. It is of unglazed white earthenware with polychrome painted decoration, portraying a Noh drama character. This kogo is one of some 3,500 assembled by the late French statesman Georges Clemenceau, the largest and finest collection in the world. Acquired by the late Joseph Arthur-Simard of Montreal, the collection was donated to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts which has loaned it to the Indianapolis Museum of Art for a special US exhibition.
FEATURES
Lisa Beebe. Thai New YearTan Kok Seng. A Secret Letter from Malaysia
Anne Scott. Burma: Legacies of Colonialism
Malacca of Memories
Visions of Southern Guam
Yutaka Mino and Katherine Tsiang Courtesy, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Indianapolis Museum of Art. Kogo Rediscovered
Pepita Fairpax. India’s Ayurvedic medicine
M. Foster Farley. Alexander in Pakistan (II)
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Rene Q. Bas. Manuel Baldemor: Baroque Joys and Basal Skills
Nigel Cameron. Book Review: The Last Empire
NEWS
Crab Claws of Taipei
Discoveries