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Tokaido Texts and Tales: Tokaido gojusan tsui by Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige, and Kunisada (Cofrin Asian Art Series)
Andreas Marks (Ed.)
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Description for Tokaido Texts and Tales: Tokaido gojusan tsui by Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige, and Kunisada (Cofrin Asian Art Series)
Hardcover. The contributors to this volume study the huge woodcut generated by the artists Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige an Kunisada titled "Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road." Editor(s): Marks, Andreas. Translator(s): Allen, Laura; Wehmeyer, Ann. Series: Cofrin Asian Art Series. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; ACBP; AFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 254 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1746.
Throughout the Edo period (1615-1868), the T?kaid? was the most vital road in a network of highways across Japan. Connecting Edo (modern-day Tokyo) and Kyoto, the road and its 53 rest stations become a popular theme for sets of woodblock prints.
The T?kaid? goj?san tsui (Fifty-Three Pairings along the T?kaid? Road) created in 1845, is one of the most fascinating of these series. Japan's three leading print designers of the nineteenth century - Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige, and Kunisada - paired easch T?kaid? rest station with an intriguing, cryptic design. Crafted to outwit the artistic restrictions imposed by the Temp?-era reforms, ... Read more
Throughout the Edo period (1615-1868), the T?kaid? was the most vital road in a network of highways across Japan. Connecting Edo (modern-day Tokyo) and Kyoto, the road and its 53 rest stations become a popular theme for sets of woodblock prints.
The T?kaid? goj?san tsui (Fifty-Three Pairings along the T?kaid? Road) created in 1845, is one of the most fascinating of these series. Japan's three leading print designers of the nineteenth century - Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige, and Kunisada - paired easch T?kaid? rest station with an intriguing, cryptic design. Crafted to outwit the artistic restrictions imposed by the Temp?-era reforms, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Condition
New
Series
Cofrin Asian Art Series
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813060217
SKU
V9780813060217
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About Andreas Marks (Ed.)
Laura Allen is curator of Japanese art at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and the coeditor of The Printer's Eye: Ukiyo-e from the Grabhorn Collection. Ann Wehmeyer is associate professor of Japanese and linguistics at the University of Florida, USA and the translator of Motoori Norinaga's Kojiki-den, Book 1. Andreas Marks is head of the Japanese ... Read more
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