Glossy softcover, publisher’s pictorial wrappers, 30 x 23 cm, pp.: [i-v] vi-xi [xii blank], [2] 3-199 [200 blank], ils.; total 106 leaves.

Title-page: Vertical from bottom to top along the outer margin in grey: KUNISADA’S WORLD; horizontally: KUNISADA’S WORLD | SEBASTIAN IZZARD | with essays by | J. THOMAS RIMER | JOHN T. CARPENTER | JAPAN SOCIETY, INC., in collaboration with the | UKIYO-E SOCIETY OF AMERICA ||

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Japan Society Gallery, New York, September 30 – November 14, 1993.

Contents: (1) Kunisada: in and out of his times; Kabuki at the time of Kunisada / J. Thomas Rimer. (2) Popular fiction in the age of Kunisada; Kunisada and the art of comic poetry / John T. Carpenter. (3) Kunisada the artist / Sebastian Izzard.

Contributors:

Sebastian Izzard

J. Thomas Rimer (American, b. 1933)

John T. Carpenter (American)

Utagawa Kunisada [歌川 国貞] a.k.a. Utagawa Toyokuni III [三代歌川豊国] (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)

Select illustrations (references in this collection):

SVJP-0179-3.2014: The Hour of the Tiger, Seventh Hour of Night from the series Twelve Hours of a Modern Clock.

SVJP-0222.2016: A view of the dressing room of a Theater in Dōtonbori, Ōsaka.

SVJP-0105.2014: Ichikawa Danjūrō VIII as the ghost of Seigen.