Designed for pleasure : the world of Edo Japan in prints and paintings, 1680-1860

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Designed for pleasure : the world of Edo Japan in prints and paintings, 1680-1860

edited by Julia Meech and Jane Oliver ; with essays by John T. Carpenter ... [et al.]

Asia Society and Japanese Art Society of America in association with University of Washington Press, c2008

1st ed

  • : pbk

Available at  / 22 libraries

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Issued in connection with an exhibition held Feb. 27-May 4, 2008, Asia Society and Museum, New York, New York

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • A Mirror on the Floating World / Donald Jenkins
  • Hishikawa Moronobu: tracking down an elusive master / David Waterhouse
  • The original source (accept no substitutes!): Okumura Masanobu / Sarah E. Thompson
  • Suzuki Harunobu: the cult and culture of color / Allen Hockley
  • Katsukawa Shunshö: Ukiyo-e paintings for the samurai elite / Timothy Clark
  • Tsutaya Jüzaburö: master publisher / Julie Nelson Davis
  • The literary network: private commissions for Hokusai and his circle / John T. Carpenter
  • Designed for pleasure: Ukiyo-e as material culture / David Pollack

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