Japanese prints
Title:
Japanese prints
Author:
Fahr-Becker, Gabriele, 1946-
ISBN:
9783822835098
Publication Information:
Köln ; London : Taschen, 2007.
Physical Description:
200 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
General Note:
| "The woodblock colour prints reproduced in this volume are all in the Riccar Art Museum in Tokyo ... since its recent move to a new building the museum is now known as the Hirako Ukiyo-e Museum."--page 200. |
Contents:
Ukiyo-e : origins and history / Mitsunobu Sato -- Cherry, wood, blossom / Thomas Zacharias -- Colour plates and illustrations -- Glossary of technical terms -- Biographies of artists -- Acknowledgments and bibliography.
Abstract:
This volume reproduces 139 Japanese woodblock colour prints by 43 famous masters of ukiyo-e, the popular art of the 17th to the 19th century. The originals are in the Riccar Art Museum in Tokyo, the world's largest and most celebrated collection of such prints.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references.
Field 805:
npmlib 南院 10518806 NE1321.8 J3585 st