Ogi: A History of the Japanese Fan

London: Dauphin, 1992. Hardcover. VG/VG. Black cloth boards with gilt stamped lettering. Glossy black and color-illustrated dust jacket wtih gold and white lettering. 112 pp. Mainly color illustrations. A comprehensive and authoritative account of the history of the Japanese fan, for both the Japanese and the Western market, has long been awaited and has only now been achieved through the collaboration of two experts in the field. Julia Hutt, a distinguished historian of Japanese art, draws on recent research to a set of fan in artistic and historical context. Helene Alexander, founding Director of the Fan Museum, Greenwich, England, provides guidance on types and techniques of fans still occasionally to be found in the art market, or current versions of the traditional fan available in Japan today, in a fully illustrated and annotated catalogue of the recent loan exhibition, Fans of the Four Seasons. -Jacket.