A Collector's Guide to Books on Japan in English
A Collector's Guide to Books on Japan in English

Author: Jozef Rogala

Publisher: Taylor & Francis US

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9781873410912

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Provides and invaluable and very accessible addition to existing biographic sources and references, not least because of the supporting biographies of major writers and the historical and cultural notes provided.

The Floating World, rev. ed.
The Floating World, rev. ed.

Author: James A. Michener

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 1984-02-01

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780824808730

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The Floating World by novelist James A. Michener is a classic work on the Japanese print of the Edo period (1615-1868). Mr. Michener shows how the Japanese printmakers, cut off from revivifying contacts with the art of the rest of the world and hampered by their own governmental restrictions, were able to keep their art vital for two centuries through their vigor and determination. For this new edition, Howard A. Link updates the scholarship and expands on many theoretical aspects introduced in Michener's study.

Irezumi
Irezumi

Author: Willem R. van Gulik

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 9004544976

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Irezumi
Irezumi

Author: Willem R. van Gulik

Publisher: Brill Archive

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13:

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Science and Civilisation in China, Part 1, Paper and Printing
Science and Civilisation in China, Part 1, Paper and Printing

Author: Joseph Needham

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1985-07-11

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 9780521086905

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Part one of the fifth volume of Joseph Needham's great enterprise is written by one of the project's collaborators. Professor Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin, working in regular consultation with Dr Needham, has written the most comprehensive account of every aspect of paper and printing in China to be published in the West. From a close study of the vast mass of source material, Professor Tsien brings order and illumination to an area of technology which has been of profound importance in the spread of civilisation. The main body of the book is a detailed study of the invention, technology and aesthetic development of printing in China. From the growth and ultimate refinements of early woodcut printing to the spread of printing from movable type and the development of book-binding, Professor Tsien carries the story forward to the beginning of the nineteenth century when 'more printed pages existed in Chinese than in all other languages put together'.