Download or read book Bamboo in old Japan : art and culture on the threshold to modernity : the Hans Spörry collection in the Ethnographic Museum of Zürich University written by Martin Brauen and published by Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH. This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Aporry, a resident of Yokohama from 1890 until 1896, lavished time and resources on amassing an incomparable collection of objects made of, or referring to, bamboo. This work celebrates the collection with photographs both old and new.