Japanese Prints
Ukiyo-e in Edo, 1700-1900
Published on 28. November 2010
Book
Hardback
144 pages
978-1-84822-076-8 (ISBN)
Description
This beautifully illustrated introduction to Japanese woodblock prints takes a fresh and vivid approach to the most familiar and widely appreciated of all the traditional Japanese arts in the west, showing how recent research has opened up a new, wider understanding of these prints and their role in Japanese history and society.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 236 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
786 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84822-076-8 (9781848220768)
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Person
Dr Ellis Tinios is an Honorary Lecturer in History at the University of Leeds, specialising in 18th- and 19th-century Japanese prints and illustrated books.
Content
Contents: Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; Reception and appreciation in the West, 1860s-1910s; The production of woodblock prints; Censorship of woodblock prints; Actor prints; Prints of beauties; Landscape prints; Warrior prints; The colour woodblock print in the Meiji era, 1868-1912; An outline history of ukiyo-e printmaking; Further Reading; Illustration acknowledgements; Index.