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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 23.5 x 31.5 cm.; 1.4 kg.; 193 pages with colour and black and white illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The dust jacket shows minor wear marks, edge wear, scuffs and scratches. All edges slightly chipped. The interior shows signs of wear, namely some pencil writing and the last page show signs of have been bent in the past.; Catalogue from the exhibition organized by Japan House Gallery and the Association for the Research and Preservation of Japanese Helmets and Armor, Tokyo held at Japan House Gallery, New York, and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco in the fall of 1985 and early winter, 1986.; "Kawari Kabuto, the Japanese warrior's helmet, has more use than to protect the head. More mask than hat, it is a dis- guise to transform the wearer into a personage of otherworldly ferocity. Intended to frighten the enemy, an even more subtle function may be to transform the wearer. Thus garbed, his true status confirmed, he is the samurai dedicated to death governed by a code beyond the pale and beyond reproach. The mask of terror becomes the man himself. The role of art in this change of personality is through sculpture. Some kabuto we recognize as great works of art. In these, the artist himself identifies as one with his creation. There is no division between artist and mask any more than there is in nature, where the beetle devises his own attire to assure survival. Art is the means." from the introduction by Isamu Noguchi.