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PublisherBrill

ISBN-109074822657

ISBN-139789074822657

eBay Product ID (ePID)47539873

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Number of Pages600 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameHotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints (2 Vols.)

SubjectPrintmaking, Asian / General, Asian / Japanese

Publication Year2005

TypeTextbook

AuthorAmy Reigle Newland

Subject AreaArt, Crafts & Hobbies

FormatHardcover

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Item Weight148.8 Oz

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2006-276033

Reviews' The bulk of the encyclopedia are essays written by fifty experts dealing with the many technical, genre, and evolutionary aspects of the woodblock prints. As I read the encyclopedia from cover to cover, the quality of the essays struck me as consistently quite high, evidence of good editing...For collectors, the encyclopedia offers information on what to look for in quality, artist and publisher identification, and other critical details...The Hotei encyclopedia is an excellent starting point for collectors. 'Todd Shimoda, The Asian Review of Books , 2006. ' .... these two volumes are a major achievement. They summarize the current state of the field and its history, both in Japanese and in Western language publications, contain practical information of use to both novice and veteran collectors, and include a large number of indispensable reference materials, many available in English for the first time. Overall, the editors did an excellent job selecting topics and authors for the essays, which provide succinct summaries of their subjects. The best of these go beyond mere summarization and provide a sense of how studies on these topics developed historically, reveal recently addressed avenues of research, use close discussion of specific prints to amplify larger points that place print production within a cultural context, and suggest directions for future scholarship. College Art Association Reviews, Pat Graham.

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Number of Volumes2 vols.

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Table Of ContentContentsForeword (J. Suzuki)Acknowledgements IntroductionEditorial NotesPart IHistorical OverviewThe Edo Period (1600-1868)Survey article: The History of the Edo Period (Bolitho)Shorter articles: Kabuki: Its History as Seen in Ukiyo-e (Leiter); Nagasaki-e (Chaiklin); Sumo (Bickford)The Meiji and Taishô Periods (1868-1925)Survey article: The Meiji and Taishô Periods: Historical Overview (Waswo)Shorter articles: Yokohama-e (Merritt/Oikawa); Woodblock Prints as a Medium of Reportage during the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars (Virgin)History of Japanese PrintsThe Edo PeriodThe Birth of Ukiyo-e to the Development of Full-colour printing (mid-17th to mid-18th centuries)Survey article: The Roots of Ukiyo-e: Its Beginnings to the Mid-18th Century (Jenkins)Shorter articles: Early Ukiyo-e Painting and Prints (Kobayashi); Ukiyo-e Book Illustration (Y-Y. Brown); Shunga (Screech)Birth of Full-colour Print: Suzuki Harunobu and His Artistic Milieu (1740s to late 18th century)Survey article: The Birth of the Full-colour Print: Suzuki Harunobu and His Age, Early 1760s to early 1780s (Waterhouse)Shorter articles: Ukiyo-e and Chinese Prints (Thomsen); The Culture of the Yoshiwara as Seen in Ukiyo-e (Swinton)Kitagawa Utamaro and His Contemporaries (late 18th to early 19th centuries)Survey article: Kitagawa Utamaro and His Contemporaries, 1780-1804 (Davis)Shorter articles: Kyôka and Ukiyo-e Print Designers (Carpenter); The Publisher Tsutaya Jûzaburô and Ukiyo-e (T. Suzuki);The First Half of the 19th CenturySurvey article: The Diversification and Further Popularization of the Full-colour Print, c. 1804-68 (Tinios) Shorter articles: Kamigata: The Prints of Osaka and Kyoto (Kitagawa); Shini-e (Takeuchi); Ukiyo meisho (Hickey); Mitate (Hickey); Musha-e (Robinson)The Meiji Period: 1868-1912Survey article: Prints of the Meiji Period (Merritt) Shorter articles: Photography and Nishiki-e (Winkel); The Maintenance of Tradition in the Face of Contemporary Demands (Oikawa); Dan-Kiku-Sa (Newland)The Early 20th Century and the Taishô Period (1912-26)Survey article: Prints and Modernity: Developments in the Early Twentieth Century (K. Brown)Shorter articles: Creative Print (Sôsaku-hanga) Magazines (Ajioka); Publisher Watanabe Shôzaburô and the Shin-hanga Movement: Its Beginnings until the 1930s (Abe)Japanese Print Production Survey article: The Materials and Techniques in Ukiyo-e Woodblock Prints (Sasaki)Shorter article: Surimono (Keyes)The Publishing TradeSurvey article: The Publishing Trade (Kornicki) Shorter article: Government Censorship and Ukiyo-e (Thompson)The Art of Collecting Survey articles: The History of Japanese Print Collecting in Japan (Oikawa); The Collecting of Japanese Prints in Europe (Put); The Early Years of Japanese Print Collecting in North America (Meech)ConservationSurvey article: The Care of Japanese Prints (Webber)Part IIReference Section 1000-2000 entries (various contributors mentioned above)Chronological tablesCharts/appendicesContributors BibliographyArtist's Index

SynopsisThe Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints will serve as a source of quick reference as well as an in-depth study of all aspects of Japanese prints from the Edo (1600-1868) to Taish (1912-26) periods. The first section of The Hotei Encyclopedia is divided into four main subject areas: historical background, the art history of Ukiyo-e prints, print production (materials and techniques, the publishing trade) and the history of collecting Japanese prints, with a shorter fifth section on conservation. Each subject area contains a longer survey article which is accompanied by shorter essays that highlight specific topics pertaining to Japanese prints and their development. The second section of the book comprises an extensive alphabetical listing of well over a 2000 carefully cross-referenced entries on individual print designers and schools, publishers, carvers, printers and collectors, major Kabuki actors, materials and techniques, conservation, subject-matter/iconography, literature and miscellaneous print-related terminology. This is followed by various appendices, including such aspects as seals of publishers and carvers, signatures, maps and chronological tables. With this ambitious project Hotei Publishing hopes to fill the gap for an extensive reference work and introduction to Japanese prints, one that will prove a valuable resource for teachers and students, art collectors, librarians and interested lay-people alike., The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints will serve as a source of quick reference as well as an in-depth study of all aspects of Japanese prints from the Edo (1600-1868) to Taisho (1912-26) periods. The first section of The Hotei Encyclopedia is divided into four main subject areas: historical background, the art history of Ukiyo-e prints, print production (materials and techniques, the publishing trade) and the history of collecting Japanese prints, with a shorter fifth section on conservation. Each subject area contains a longer survey article which is accompanied by shorter essays that highlight specific topics pertaining to Japanese prints and their development. The second section of the book comprises an extensive alphabetical listing of well over a 2000 carefully cross-referenced entries on individual print designers and schools, publishers, carvers, printers and collectors, major Kabuki actors, materials and techniques, conservation, subject-matter/iconography, literature and miscellaneous print-related terminology. This is followed by various appendices, including such aspects as seals of publishers and carvers, signatures, maps and chronological tables. With this ambitious project Hotei Publishing hopes to fill the gap for an extensive reference work and introduction to Japanese prints, one that will prove a valuable resource for teachers and students, art collectors, librarians and interested lay-people alike., The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints will serve as a source of quick reference as well as an in-depth study of all aspects of Japanese prints from the Edo (1600-1868) to Taisho (1912-26) periods. The first section of The Hotei Encyclopedia is divided into four main subject areas. Each subject area contains a longer survey article which is accompanied by shorter essays that highlight specific topics pertaining to Japanese prints and their development. The second section of the book comprises an extensive alphabetical listing of well over a 2000 carefully cross-referenced entries on individual print designers and schools, publishers, carvers, printers and collectors, major Kabuki actors, materials and techniques, conservation, subject-matter/iconography, literature and miscellaneous print-related terminology. This is followed by various appendices, including such aspects as seals of publishers and carvers, signatures, maps and chronological tables.

LC Classification NumberNE1310.H68 2005