Making Japanese Style Lamps Lanterns

Nothing is quite as beautiful as the Japanese lamp or lantern. Edward Turner gives both novice and experienced woodworkers the ability to create remarkable lighting devices including bedside, overhead, freestanding, and outdoor lamps. All designs come with detailed instructions and rich color photographs. Projects are rated, with something for every level of ability.

Illustrates how to connect with and incorporate Japanese design traditions into western homes. Adept at compact living and masters of elegant simplicity, the Japanese embody the principle of doing more with less.

This book is filled with delicious, healthy, professionally developed successful party recipes that you can make in your own home. Easy to use, each two page party spread contains everything you need to know to have a successful event centred around your theme; decorations, accessory ideas, games and activities, menus, colours, music, lighting, flowers, scents, and of course, food and drink suggestions.

Keisai Eisen (1790 -1848) is especially known for his bijin-ga, pretty women, and landscapes. He is well known for his participation in the series 69 stations of the Nakasendō together with Hiroshige. The series A Tōkaidō Board Game of Courtesans, Fifty-three Pairings in the Yoshiwara use the Tōkaidō with landscape inserts as an excuse for showing courtesans and geisha, bijin-ga, to skirt the censorship. It was published 1821-1823. His bijin-ga are considered to be masterpieces of the "decadent" Bunsei Era (1818–1830). Most of them have impressive hairdo with many ornamental hairpins and combs. Their dress is extravagant with beautiful patterns and sublime embroideries. Their faces are elongated squares with long noses and small pouted painted mouths. Courtesans were desirable for their rich and splendid attire, not so much for their beauty and their names were actually like trademarks for a series of girls performing the name role with the brothel in question.

Kyoto hanging lantern, tree branch floor lamp, wrought iron beaded lamp, paper mache floor lamp with two women, gourd sconce, leather-plaited gourd, Shaker-style table lamp, cheerleader-theme lamp, reader-themed lamp, fabric-covered PVC canister lamp, autumn leaf luminator, walnut floor lamp, copper gourd lamp, CD cabinet floor lamp, copper tubing lamp that bobs, corrugated lantern, free-form wire and handmade paper lamp, cypress lamp, fallen wood lamp with clock, lapidary lamp with basswood shade, bamboo lamp, geode night lamp, lamp made of plumbing supplies, kinetic lamp with string and knobs, paper globe swag lamp, Japanese washi lantern, Arts and crafts lamp.

Getting started -- Designing a Japanese garden -- Elements of Japanese gardens -- Plants for Japanese gardens.

This book offers detailed step-by-step advice on how to design and construct Japanese gardens in various environments, using only materials widely available in the West.