Japanese Design Motifs a genre which appealed to

a genre which appealed to his psychic constitution and may have reflected a deep inner torment

and the applications to which the designs can be put

to the bone structure

easy-to-make paper snowflakes

Duke Ellington

Japanese Design Motifs a genre which appealed toThis collection presents more than 4,000 individual designs in the 900 year old tradition of Japanese family crests. Through constant variation and invention over the centuries, this has become one of the richest graphic art traditions in the world. Most of these motifs are circular, and they can all be fitted into a square. Within those limitations is a seemingly endless range of designs, beginning with the dozens and dozens of root motifs rice