The Prints of Isoda Koryusai: Floating World Culture and Its Consumers in Eighteenth-Century Japan

by Allen Hockley

The ukiyo-e artist Isoda Koryusai produced thousands of designs between 1769 and 1781, a crucial period in the evolution of the print tradition, and was honored with the imperial title of hokkyo, yet he has been long neglected by scholars. Allen Hockley has identified more than 2,500 designs of wide-ranging formats and themes, demonstrating that Koryusai broadened the treatment of traditional print subjects and appealed to a wider and more varied...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295983019
• ISBN13: 9780295983011
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher