Genji's World in Japanese Woodblock Prints

by Andreas Marks

Genji's world in Japanese Woodblock Prints provides the first comprehensive overview of Genji prints, an exceptional subject and publishing phenomenon among Japanese woodblock prints that gives insight into nineteenth-century Japan and its art practices.
In the late 1820s, when the writer Ryūtei Tanehiko (1783-1842), the print designer and book illustrator Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) and the publisher Tsuruya Kiemon sat down together...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004233539
• ISBN13: 9789004233539
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Brill Hotei
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 4.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 11.4" x 11.5"