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Geisha: Women of Japan´s Flower & Willow World
Tina Skinner
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Description for Geisha: Women of Japan´s Flower & Willow World
Hardback. Num Pages: 238 pages, 582 color and b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJ; AJCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 314 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1936.
This is the most comprehensive assembly of historic geisha images ever compiled in a book. Over 500 exquisite views - drawn from postcards produced primarily between 1900 and 1940 - illustrate the rarified world of Japan's now-extinct licensed pleasure districts. Soon after the West pried open Japan's doors in 1853, stories about Japan began to circulate wildly through Victorian societies. Geisha quickly attained folkloric status as both imagery, widely traveled stage productions, and titillating novels spread their fame, and postcards bearing their images circulated the globe. Enter a world dripping in symbolism, elevated by accomplishment. For the Westerner, it is ... Read more
This is the most comprehensive assembly of historic geisha images ever compiled in a book. Over 500 exquisite views - drawn from postcards produced primarily between 1900 and 1940 - illustrate the rarified world of Japan's now-extinct licensed pleasure districts. Soon after the West pried open Japan's doors in 1853, stories about Japan began to circulate wildly through Victorian societies. Geisha quickly attained folkloric status as both imagery, widely traveled stage productions, and titillating novels spread their fame, and postcards bearing their images circulated the globe. Enter a world dripping in symbolism, elevated by accomplishment. For the Westerner, it is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764321535
SKU
V9780764321535
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About Tina Skinner
A professional writer and editor for over 20 years, Tina Skinner has lived in and traveled extensively throughout Asia. She has become a collector of geisha and Japanese postcards as a direct result of her research for this book. Mary L. Martin heads Mary Martin Postcards, a three-generation family business and the largest postcard operation in the world. Wes Ponder ... Read more
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