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Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints : Reflections of Meiji Culture / Helen Merritt, Nanako Yamada.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780824842895
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Names and Illustrations -- 1 Setting the Stage -- 2 Kuchi-e as Prints -- 3 Glimpses of the Past -- 4 Glimpses of the Present -- 5 The Self and Expression of Feelings -- 6 Bijin-ga and Their Messages -- 7 Kuchi-e Artists the World of Meiji Painters -- Appendix A: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES -- Appendix B: FACSIMILE SIGNATURES AND SEALS -- Appendix C: SOURCES OF THE KUCHI-E -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints: Reflections of Meiji Culture is a pioneer exploration of a previously neglected genre of late-Meiji art: the type of handmade multicolor book frontispieces known as kuchi-e. Early European collectors assumed that the Japanese woodblock tradition came to an end in Western-tainted prints. Although many crudely colored prints of subjects such as steam trains and men in derby hats did flood the Japanese market, the works introduced in this amply illustrated and readable volume make clear that there was another class of popular woodblock tradition unknown to foreigners that continued into the early twentieth century. In their examination of this late flowering of the woodblock print, the authors provide not only an introduction to a popular artistic tradition but also a new lens through which to view Japanese life at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Names and Illustrations -- 1 Setting the Stage -- 2 Kuchi-e as Prints -- 3 Glimpses of the Past -- 4 Glimpses of the Present -- 5 The Self and Expression of Feelings -- 6 Bijin-ga and Their Messages -- 7 Kuchi-e Artists the World of Meiji Painters -- Appendix A: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES -- Appendix B: FACSIMILE SIGNATURES AND SEALS -- Appendix C: SOURCES OF THE KUCHI-E -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

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Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints: Reflections of Meiji Culture is a pioneer exploration of a previously neglected genre of late-Meiji art: the type of handmade multicolor book frontispieces known as kuchi-e. Early European collectors assumed that the Japanese woodblock tradition came to an end in Western-tainted prints. Although many crudely colored prints of subjects such as steam trains and men in derby hats did flood the Japanese market, the works introduced in this amply illustrated and readable volume make clear that there was another class of popular woodblock tradition unknown to foreigners that continued into the early twentieth century. In their examination of this late flowering of the woodblock print, the authors provide not only an introduction to a popular artistic tradition but also a new lens through which to view Japanese life at the end of the nineteenth century.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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