Author: Marty Noble
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486476510
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Colorists of all ages will appreciate these graceful courtesans, mountainous landscapes, and other images from the woodblock tradition. Thirty meticulous renderings include masterly works by Kunisada, Hiroshige, Utamaro, Eisen, and Toyokuni.
The Typographic Imagination
Author: Nathan Shockey
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023155074X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
In the early twentieth century, Japan was awash with typographic text and mass-produced print. Over the short span of a few decades, affordable books and magazines became a part of everyday life, and a new generation of writers and thinkers considered how their world could be reconstructed through the circulation of printed language as a mass-market commodity. The Typographic Imagination explores how this commercial print revolution transformed Japan’s media ecology and traces the possibilities and pitfalls of type as a force for radical social change. Nathan Shockey examines the emergence of new forms of reading, writing, and thinking in Japan from the last years of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth. Charting the relationships among prose, politics, and print capitalism, he considers the meanings and functions of print as a staple commodity and as a ubiquitous and material medium for discourse and thought. Drawing on extensive archival research, The Typographic Imagination brings into conversation a wide array of materials, including bookseller trade circulars, language reform debates, works of experimental fiction, photo gazetteers, socialist periodicals, Esperanto primers, declassified censorship documents, and printing press strike bulletins. Combining the rigorous close analysis of Japanese literary studies with transdisciplinary methodologies from media studies, book history, and intellectual history, The Typographic Imagination presents a multivalent vision of the rise of mass print media and the transformations of modern Japanese literature, language, and culture.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023155074X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
In the early twentieth century, Japan was awash with typographic text and mass-produced print. Over the short span of a few decades, affordable books and magazines became a part of everyday life, and a new generation of writers and thinkers considered how their world could be reconstructed through the circulation of printed language as a mass-market commodity. The Typographic Imagination explores how this commercial print revolution transformed Japan’s media ecology and traces the possibilities and pitfalls of type as a force for radical social change. Nathan Shockey examines the emergence of new forms of reading, writing, and thinking in Japan from the last years of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth. Charting the relationships among prose, politics, and print capitalism, he considers the meanings and functions of print as a staple commodity and as a ubiquitous and material medium for discourse and thought. Drawing on extensive archival research, The Typographic Imagination brings into conversation a wide array of materials, including bookseller trade circulars, language reform debates, works of experimental fiction, photo gazetteers, socialist periodicals, Esperanto primers, declassified censorship documents, and printing press strike bulletins. Combining the rigorous close analysis of Japanese literary studies with transdisciplinary methodologies from media studies, book history, and intellectual history, The Typographic Imagination presents a multivalent vision of the rise of mass print media and the transformations of modern Japanese literature, language, and culture.
Illustrations of Japanese Life (Classic Reprint)
Author: S. Takashima
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781396737633
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Excerpt from Illustrations of Japanese Life In Pfcpafing this volume neither labour nor expense has spared: and I send it out to the public feeling mandent that no such gallery of photographs, giving the exact picture of every day life of the Japanese. Has ever been presented before in one volume. Being printed by the collotype process, which has of late become very popular. The pictures herein contained are true to nature and free from any retouches by the artist. Moreover. Unlike ordinary photographs, these collotype pictures are really permanent, in the sense that they will not fade in any length of time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781396737633
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Excerpt from Illustrations of Japanese Life In Pfcpafing this volume neither labour nor expense has spared: and I send it out to the public feeling mandent that no such gallery of photographs, giving the exact picture of every day life of the Japanese. Has ever been presented before in one volume. Being printed by the collotype process, which has of late become very popular. The pictures herein contained are true to nature and free from any retouches by the artist. Moreover. Unlike ordinary photographs, these collotype pictures are really permanent, in the sense that they will not fade in any length of time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Japanese Print
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Color prints, Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Color prints, Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Book in Japan
Author: Peter Kornicki
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824823375
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
New in paperback. Of related interest: A History of Writing in Japan, by Christopher Seeley
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824823375
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
New in paperback. Of related interest: A History of Writing in Japan, by Christopher Seeley
Between Manuscript and Print
Author: Sylvia Brockstieger
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111242692
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A cross-cultural, comparative view on the transition from a predominant 'culture of handwriting' to a predominant 'culture of print' in the late medieval and early modern periods is provided here, combining research on Christian and Jewish European book culture with findings on East Asian manuscript and print culture. This approach highlights interactions and interdependencies instead of retracing a linear process from the manuscript book to its printed successor. While each chapter is written as a disciplinary study focused on one specific case from the respective field, the volume as a whole allows for transcultural perspectives. It thereby not only focusses on change, but also on simultaneities of manuscript and printing practices as well as on shifts in the perception of media, writing surfaces, and materials: Which values did writers, printers, and readers attribute to the handwritten and printed materials? For which types of texts was handwriting preferred or perceived as suitable? How and under which circumstances could handwritten and printed texts coexist, even within the same document, and which epistemic dynamics emerged from such textual assemblages?
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111242692
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A cross-cultural, comparative view on the transition from a predominant 'culture of handwriting' to a predominant 'culture of print' in the late medieval and early modern periods is provided here, combining research on Christian and Jewish European book culture with findings on East Asian manuscript and print culture. This approach highlights interactions and interdependencies instead of retracing a linear process from the manuscript book to its printed successor. While each chapter is written as a disciplinary study focused on one specific case from the respective field, the volume as a whole allows for transcultural perspectives. It thereby not only focusses on change, but also on simultaneities of manuscript and printing practices as well as on shifts in the perception of media, writing surfaces, and materials: Which values did writers, printers, and readers attribute to the handwritten and printed materials? For which types of texts was handwriting preferred or perceived as suitable? How and under which circumstances could handwritten and printed texts coexist, even within the same document, and which epistemic dynamics emerged from such textual assemblages?
Understanding Japanese Woodblock-printed Illustrated Books
Author: Jun Suzuki
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
ISBN: 9789004258310
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
"Understanding Japanese Woodblock-Printed Illustrated Books offers a wider understanding and appreciation of the illustrated books produced in Japan between 1603 and 1912. It is a valuable tool for scholars of early modern Japanese art and literature and a broad range of other disciplines who wish to integrate the content of Japanese illustrated books into their teaching and research. As a handbook aimed at collectors, curators and librarians, it is also an essential resource to assist in evaluating, describing and conserving the books in their care. The background essays, a detailed glossary and case studies are equally of interest to students of the history and art of the book, publishing, printing and book illustration."--
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
ISBN: 9789004258310
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
"Understanding Japanese Woodblock-Printed Illustrated Books offers a wider understanding and appreciation of the illustrated books produced in Japan between 1603 and 1912. It is a valuable tool for scholars of early modern Japanese art and literature and a broad range of other disciplines who wish to integrate the content of Japanese illustrated books into their teaching and research. As a handbook aimed at collectors, curators and librarians, it is also an essential resource to assist in evaluating, describing and conserving the books in their care. The background essays, a detailed glossary and case studies are equally of interest to students of the history and art of the book, publishing, printing and book illustration."--
Japanese proverbs and pictures
Author: Frederick Starr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Modern Japanese Prints - Statler
Author: Oliver Statler
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462909558
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Featuring over 100 unique prints, Modern Japanese Prints is a testament to the continuity of Japanese art and creativity. By far the most vitally creative group of artists working in Japan today, modern print-makers are truly international in appeal. Although they owe much of their heritage to the famous ukiyoe techniques of the past, they depart from their forebears in at least two important respects. In the first place, whereas in the ancient ukiyoe tradition a print was the joint production of three men— the artist-designer, the artisan who carved the blocks, and the printer—these modern artists perform all these functions themselves, thus satisfying their demands for individual artistic expression at every step of the creative process. Another distinguishing feature of this artistic school is that its inspiration is derived neither solely from its own Japanese past nor solely from the West. This book carefully traces the history of the modern print movement through detailed discussions of the life and work of twenty-nine of its most noteworthy and representative artists. It describes vicissitudes which the movement has undergone and the high artistic ideals which have motivated its members in spite of public apathy and the hostility of the traditionalists.
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462909558
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Featuring over 100 unique prints, Modern Japanese Prints is a testament to the continuity of Japanese art and creativity. By far the most vitally creative group of artists working in Japan today, modern print-makers are truly international in appeal. Although they owe much of their heritage to the famous ukiyoe techniques of the past, they depart from their forebears in at least two important respects. In the first place, whereas in the ancient ukiyoe tradition a print was the joint production of three men— the artist-designer, the artisan who carved the blocks, and the printer—these modern artists perform all these functions themselves, thus satisfying their demands for individual artistic expression at every step of the creative process. Another distinguishing feature of this artistic school is that its inspiration is derived neither solely from its own Japanese past nor solely from the West. This book carefully traces the history of the modern print movement through detailed discussions of the life and work of twenty-nine of its most noteworthy and representative artists. It describes vicissitudes which the movement has undergone and the high artistic ideals which have motivated its members in spite of public apathy and the hostility of the traditionalists.
Japanese Woodblock Printing
Author: Rebecca Salter
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824825539
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Of all the sophisticated traditional arts and crafts of Japan, woodblock prints are probably the most widely known in the West. The bold yet refined compositions are as fresh to the Western eye today as they were when they first came to the attention of the Impressionists in the nineteenth century. With their fluid lines, intricate carving and delicate colors, Japanese prints are still as fascinating as ever. In this book, Rebecca Salter takes us through the history of the Japanese woodblock, discusses the materials, tools, and papers available (and their Western equivalents) and shows how to get the most out of them through interesting step-by-step projects. The work of an international group of artists shows the varied and exciting prints being produced today.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824825539
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Of all the sophisticated traditional arts and crafts of Japan, woodblock prints are probably the most widely known in the West. The bold yet refined compositions are as fresh to the Western eye today as they were when they first came to the attention of the Impressionists in the nineteenth century. With their fluid lines, intricate carving and delicate colors, Japanese prints are still as fascinating as ever. In this book, Rebecca Salter takes us through the history of the Japanese woodblock, discusses the materials, tools, and papers available (and their Western equivalents) and shows how to get the most out of them through interesting step-by-step projects. The work of an international group of artists shows the varied and exciting prints being produced today.
The Golden Lotus and Other Legends of Japan
Author: Edward Greey
Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)
ISBN: 9781410101303
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Devoted for the most part, to the tales and stories of Tokyo, old Edo. Covers the Theatre, God Fox, Legend of Rain, Noh Theater, and more. Edward Greey was an early American resident of Yedo, and also wrote several other titles on Japan. Originally published in 1883.
Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)
ISBN: 9781410101303
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Devoted for the most part, to the tales and stories of Tokyo, old Edo. Covers the Theatre, God Fox, Legend of Rain, Noh Theater, and more. Edward Greey was an early American resident of Yedo, and also wrote several other titles on Japan. Originally published in 1883.