Japanese popular prints : from votive slips to playing cards / Rebecca Salter
- Bib ID:
- 3800595
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Salter, Rebecca, 1955-
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2006
- 208 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780824830830
- 0824830830
- Summary:
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"Approaching the subject as an artist rather than a print scholar, Rebecca Salter focuses on the craftsmen and the complex visual culture within which they worked. Through information gained from interviews with some of the remaining practitioners and analysis of the objects themselves, she builds up a picture of the quiet role woodblock played in the lives of the Japanese as they moved from the isolation of the Edo period to embrace modernisation in the early 20th century." "The book is an exploration of this area of cultural history and the numerous colour illustrations encourage a playful investigation of the many threads of Japan's visual culture."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- History, method, context
- A brief history of printing in Japan
- The woodblock technique
- Edo society
- The art of play
- Knowledge, news, views
- Books
- Calendars : koyomi
- Programmes and lists : banzuke and zukushi
- News-sheets : kawaraban and shinbun nishiki-e
- The art of travel - maps, guides and gazetteers
- Advertising : hikifuda
- The outside world : Nagasaki-e, Yokohama-e and saya-e
- Faith, fortune, general well-being
- Votive slips and exchange slips : senjafuda and kokanfuda
- Catfish prints : namazu-e
- Medicine prints : baiyaku-e
- Smallpox prints and measles prints : hoso-e and hashika-e
- Obituary prints : shini-e
- Leisure, pleasure, play
- Playful prints and toy prints : asobi-e and omocha-e
- Board games : sugoroku, jurokumusashi and menko
- Playing cards : karuta
- Decorative papers : karakami, chiyogami, pochibukuro and futo
- And finally.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p.207) and index.
- Subject:
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