Water of the Sky: A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words - Hardcover
by Miya Ando
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Availability:In StockContributor:Miya Ando, Hollis Goodall (Foreword by), Joan Halifax (Contribution by)Publish date:11/4/2025Pages:280
Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262049863ISBN-10:262049864UPC:9780262049863Book Category:Art, Language Study, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Individual Artists, Japanese, LinguisticsBook Topic:Monographs, Historical & ComparativeSize:8.10 x 6.20 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.7108Product ID:SCA453WTSJ
Water of the Sky: A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words
A breathtakingly elegant visual dictionary of 2000 Japanese words for rain, with 100 drawings in indigo. In Water of the Sky, artist Miya Ando offers us a beautifully rich, bilingual visual dictionary for rain. Through a collection of 2,000 Japanese words, their English interpretations, and 100 drawings, Ando describes the breadth and diversity of rain's many expressions: when it falls, how it...
Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262049863ISBN-10:262049864UPC:9780262049863Book Category:Art, Language Study, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Individual Artists, Japanese, LinguisticsBook Topic:Monographs, Historical & ComparativeSize:8.10 x 6.20 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.7108Product ID:SCA453WTSJ
Miya Ando is a Japanese and American artist. Her work examines the dialectic coexistence of Eastern and Western cultures through the lens of natural phenomena and is included in many private and public collections, including that of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Publisher: MIT Press
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Miya Ando, Hollis Goodall (Foreword by), Joan Halifax (Contribution by)
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