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

Title
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.].
Publication
New York : Asia Society and Japanese Art Society of America ; Seattle : In association with University of Washington Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Meech, Julia.
  • Oliver, Jane (Jane W.)
  • Carpenter, John T.
  • Asia Society.
  • Japanese Art Society of America.
Description
256 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 31 cm.
Subjects
Note
  • Issued in connection with an exhibition held Feb. 27-May 4, 2008, Asia Society and Museum, New York, New York.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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 Shunshō: Ukiyo-e paintings for the samurai elite / Timothy Clark -- Tsutaya Jūzaburō: 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.
ISBN
  • 9780295987866 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0295987863 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2007039628
OCLC
  • ocn173502780
  • SCSB-1471342
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library