Contrast Research On Chinese And Japanese's Traditional Furniture Decorationhardware

The hardware decoration is an important part of furniture decoration from ancient times. Not only it is the function component, also is the artistic ornament on the furniture. As an important constituent in the classical furniture structure and decoration art, the hardware decoration is one of the important characteristics which manifest its style and characteristic.The traditional furniture decoration hardware of China and Japan have their exquisite beauty respectively. But because of the different historical perspective and the cultural origin, their furniture decoration hardware also has its own characteristic and the style. The same strain of cultures of the two countries and also they learned from each other have also caused two decorative similar.The author mainly utilizes the survey procedure, the search literature material law, the comparison test and the analytic method and so on. Starting with both countries' traditional culture background and history origin of the hardware, investigation to Japanese traditional hardware production, as well as visiting to artisanal producers of Japanese traditional furniture decoration hardware, Seriously and objectivelyanalysis two countries'culture and traditional style, and historical origins which form theirown unique culturwr; Compared and surveied the traditional furniture decoration hardware of China and Japan, and studied decorative types, decorative parts, decorative function and decorative materials, decorative style and the production of materials and decoration process, to identify similarities between the two and differences; Paper focused on forming factors and trends of Japanese traditional furniture decoration hardware, and analysised the final reason of two countries'hardware development's "same origins and different category".From that:The develoment of Chinese and Japanese's traditional furniture decorationhardware is same origins and different category, and there are a lot of similarities, but the historical development of the two countries, differences of geographical environment,different national character also determine the eccence difference of Chinese and Japanese's raditional furniture decoration hardware.The study to traditional furniture decoration hardware of China and Japan,eitherfrom the literature, history, art history or folklore, and so on, also has great social valueand economic value, and can tell us a lot of unprecedented things. Yamato's virtue that their clinging insprit to admmissive culture and absorbing foreign culture,which be changed into their owns deserves our's study.