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PrintCollection Name: Drachen Foundation Collection
Collection Number: 2645
Post Type: Book
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Artist or Author: Dr. W. Muller
Creation Year: 1914
Length: 10.75 inches
Height: 7.5 inches
Width: 1/8 inches
Summay:
This is truly one of the most cherished collectables in the kiting world. Written in German by Dr. W. Mueller in 1914, and published by the Museum for Lander and Volkerkunde, Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, German.
Translated: The Paper Kites of Japan
With 12 drawings and 18 color tipped figures.
Foreword
Some time ago, Dr. W. Muller, Imperial, German Consul in Shimonoseki (Japan) Museum of the lander and Volker customer, Linden Museum, Stuttgart made a collection of almost all Japanese gebrauchlicher dragon as a gift, perceive a survey of Gulen about the big shapes and Mannigfaultigkeit Konstrucktionen who has won this interesting flying machine over a jahrhunderlelangen development in the Far East.
The collection obtained by the present value of a particular publication. In the same Dr. Muller has undergone in an excellent manner to the welcome task of reporting on the basis of his thorough knowledge of Japan, near the kite over to play and the Dragons.
About to disappear sooner or later, maybe this old dragon games, like the author ausfuhrt also, in many relationships can not unite merh with demands of modern Japan, and then will go and the art of making the strange giant dragons lost. More encouraging is that the author obtained in admirable account of the posterity of what today is still known about the construction of the dragon. how about irhre use, we find even the beginnings of aviation engineering and its practical use in Japan in the war initiated.
Stuttgart, October 1914
Geographic: Germany, Japan
Kite Type: Bowed, Figure, Flat
Materials: Bamboo, Paper
Significance: Art, Cultural, Historical
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