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Adam Kern offers a close reading of the vibrant popular imagination through kibyoshi, a genre of sophisticated pictorial fiction from late-eighteenth-century Japan. Illustrated with rare prints from Japanese archival collections, these entertaining works will appeal to the general reader as well as to the student of Japanese cultural history.

Summary

Adam Kern offers a close reading of the vibrant popular imagination through kibyoshi, a genre of sophisticated pictorial fiction from late-eighteenth-century Japan. Illustrated with rare prints from Japanese archival collections, these entertaining works will appeal to the general reader as well as to the student of Japanese cultural history.

Product details

• Authors: Adam L. Kern
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.06.2019
• EAN: 9780674241763
• ISBN: 978-0-674-24176-3
• No. of pages: 606
• Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design