Aesthetic strategies of the floating world : mitate, yatsushi, and fūryū in early modern Japanese popular culture

Author(s)

• Haft, Alfred

Bibliographic Information

Aesthetic strategies of the floating world : mitate, yatsushi, and fūryū in early modern Japanese popular culture

by Alfred Haft

（Japanese visual culture / managing editor, John T. Carpenter, v. 9）

Brill, 2013

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-207) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Aesthetics of the Floating World offers an in-depth account of three aesthetic concepts-mitate, yatsushi, and furyu-which influenced the way early-modern Japanese popular culture absorbed and responded to this force of cultural tradition. Combining literary, historical, and visual evidence, the book examines particularly how the three concepts guided artistic choices in the context of Floating World prints (ukiyo-e), and how the concepts have shaped the direction of ukiyo-e studies since the Meiji period (1868-1912).

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Details

• NCID: BB1125034X
• ISBN:
  • 9789004209879
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: 216 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 700.9520903
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Aesthetics, Japanese
  • LCSH : Ukiyoe
  • LCSH : Color prints, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868
  • LCSH : Illustration of books--Japan -- Edo period, 1600-1868
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB04077132