Written Texts - Visual Texts
Woodblock-printed Media in Early Modern Japan
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2005
Book
Leather / fine binding
368 pages
978-90-74822-58-9 (ISBN)
Description
This volume brings together essays discussing various aspects of Japanese illustrated books, some of which were originally included in the German publication Buch und Bild (1995), while others appear here for the first time. Titles include 'The First Japanese Newspapers' (Sepp Linhart), 'The Cooking- and Eating Culture in the Second Half of the Edo-Period and its Dissemination' (Harada Nobuo), 'The Printing of Illustrated Books in Eighteenth-Century Japan' (Shirahata Yozaburo), 'The Socio-Historical Background of the Depiction of Measles' (Hartmund O. Rotermund), 'Documentary Literature in the Late Edo Period' (Stephan Kohn), 'Discourses on Femininity on Edo-Period Sugoroku Games' (Susanne Formanek).
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Product notice
Cloth
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
676 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-74822-58-9 (9789074822589)
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Susanne Formanek is an academic researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
Sepp Linhart is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Vienna, a post he has held since 1978. He has authored eight books on Japan and acted as (co)-editor for twenty-five.
Sepp Linhart is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Vienna, a post he has held since 1978. He has authored eight books on Japan and acted as (co)-editor for twenty-five.