Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 235 x 165 mm, pp. [1-9] 10-176, 120 illustrations, incl. 109 in full colour, 3 maps, glossary, and timeline. An enveloped postcard to E. Varshavsky laid in. Text profusely marked with coloured highlighters.
Title-page (pictorial): Art of Edo Japan | The Artist and the City 1615-1868 | Christine Guth | PERSPECTIVES | HARRY N. ABRAMS, INC. PUBLISHERS ||
Contents:
NOTE TO THE READER
Map: Japan during the Edo period
INTRODUCTION: Mapping the Artistic Landscape
- The Artist and the City
The Castle Town; Urban Culture; The Urban Artist
- Kyoto Artists
Map: Kyoto; The Kano and Tosa Schools; Köetsu, Sotatsu, and Rinpa Design; Taiga, Buson, and the Literati Movement; The Maruyama-Shijo School; Individualists: Jakuchü, Shöhaku, and Rosetsu; The Yamatoe Revival
- Edo Artists
Map: Edo; The Kano School and the Realm of the Official Artist; Developments in Woodblock Prints: 1660-1760; Developments in Polychrome Prints: 1765-1801; Further Developments in Woodblock Prints: 1801-68; Sakai Höitsu and Tani Buncho: Edo Ripa and Bunjinga
- Osaka and Nagasaki Artists
Kimura Kenkadö and his Circle; Osaka Books and Prints; Nagasaki: Window on the World; Monk-Artists of the Öbaku Sect; Visiting Chinese Artists and their Pupils; Painters in the Western Manner
- Itinerant, Provincial, and Rural Artists; Itinerant Monk-Artists and Pilgrimage Art; Poet and Literati Painters; Provincial and Rural Artists
GLOSSARY
TIMELINE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PICTURE CREDITS
INDEX
