The aesthetics of the Japanese lunchbox
By: Kenji Ekuan ; edited by David B. Stewart.
Contributors: Stewart, David B.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge,Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Aesthetics -- Japanese.; Lunchboxes -- Japan.; Design -- Japan.
Work titles: Makunouchi bento no bigaku.
Description: Kenji Ekuan reveals that a deeper reading for the traditional Japanese lunchbox: seeing the lunchbox as nothing less that a key to an understanding of Japanese civilization, the spirit of form, and the aesthetic ideal in which the many are reduced to one.
Notes: First published in Japan in 1980.