Selected Bibliography: Edo Visual Culture
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I. The Floating World-- Image and Text
Addiss, Stephen. "Woodblock Prints."
In How to Look at Japanese Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams,
1996.

Campbell, Kazue Edamatsu. "The
Language of the Pleasure Quarter." The Women of the Pleasure
Quarter: Japanese Paintings and Prints of the Floating World.
Ed. Elizabeth de Sanato Swinton. New York: Hudson Hills Press
and the Worcerster Art Museum, 1996. 67-85.

Clark, Timothy. "Mitate-e: Some
Thoughts, and a Summary of Recent Writings." Impressions:
The Journal of the Ukiyo-e Society of America. 19 (1997).
Dalby, Liza Crihfield. "Marunobu's
Fashion Magazine." In Kimono: Fashioning Culture.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. 271-321.
Fiorillo, John. Viewing Japanese Prints.
http://spectacle.berkeley.edu/~fiorillo/welcome.html
Guth, Christine. Art of Edo Japan: The Artist and the City:
1615-1868. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996.
Hibbitt, Howard. The floating world
in Japanese fiction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1959.
Jenkins, Donald. "Introduction"
to The Floating World Revisited. Honolulu: University
of Hawaii Press, 1993. 3-23.
Johansson, Olof Hans. Ukiyo-e, The Pictures
of the Floating World.
www.bahnhof.se/~secutor/ukiyo-e/

Jones, Sumie. "William Hogarth
and Kitao Masanobu: Reading Eighteenth-Century Pictorial Narratives."
Yearbook of Contemporary and General Literature. Bloomington,
Indiana. No.34, 37-73.
Jones, Sumie, ed. Imaging/Reading
Eros: Proceedings for the conference, Sexuality and Edo Culture,
1750-1850. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University East Asian
Studies Center, 1996.
Kobayashi, Tadashi. "Mitate-e in
the Art of Ukiyo-e Artist Suzuki Harunobu" from The Floating
World Revisited. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993.
85-91.

Kuki, Shûzô. Reflections
on Japanese Taste: The Structure of Iki. Translated by John
Clark. Sydney: Power Publications, 1997.
Lane, Richard Douglas. Images from
the floating world: the Japanese print: including an illustrated
dictionary of ukiyo-e. New York: Putnam, 1978.
Screech, Timon. Sex and the floating world: erotic images
in Japan, 1700-1820. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press,
1999.
Seigle, Cecelia Segawa. Yoshiwara: The Glittering World
of the Japanese Courtesan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii
Press, 1993.
Singer, Robert T. et al. Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868.
Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1998.
Williams, L Marjorie. "Western
Influences in 'Pictures of the Floating World.'" Japanese
Prints: Realities of the "Floating World". Cleveland
OH: Indiana University Press and the Cleveland Museum of Art,
1983

II. Kabuki Visuality
Brandon, James R., ed. The Cambridge
Guide to Asian theater. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge
UP, 1993.
Brandon, James R. "Form in Kabuki
Acting." Studies in Kabuki: Its Acting, Music, and Historical
Context. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1978. 63-130.
Clarke, Timothy T. The Actor's Image: Print Makers of the
Katsukawa School. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago and Princeton
UP, 1994.
Gerstle, C. Andrew. "Flowers of
Edo: Eighteenth Century Kabuki and its Patrons." Asian
Theatre Journal. 4.1 (1987). 52-75.

Hachimonjiya, Jisho. The Actor's Analects (Yakusha Rongo).
Ed. and trans. by Charles J. Dunn and Bunzo Torigoe. New York:
Columbia UP, 1969.
Hare, Thomas. Classic Japanese Drama website (Asian
Languages 135, Stanford University). http://www.stanford.edu/class/asianlang135/

Johnson, Mathew and Manjiro, Ichimura.
Kabuki for Everyone. January 17, 2000. http://www.fix.co.ja/kabuki/kabuki.html

Kominz, Laurence. "Ichikawa Danjûrô
V and Kabukis Golden Age." The Floating World Revisited.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. 63-83.

Oshima, Mark. "The Keisei
as a Meeting Point of Different Worlds: Courtesan and the Kabuki
Onnagata." The Women of the Pleasure Quarter:
Japanese Paintings and Prints of the Floating World. Ed.
Elizabeth de Sanato Swinton. New York: Hudson Hills Press and
the Worcerster Art Museum, 1996. 87-105.

Shively, Donald H. "The Social
Environment of Tokugawa Kabuki." Studies in Kabuki: Its
Acting, Music, and Historical Context. Honolulu: University
of Hawaii Press, 1978. 1-61.

III. Vision, technology, and the West
Browne, Michael. "Portraits of Foreigners by Kawahara
Keiga." Ars Orientalis. 15 (1985). 31-45.
French, Calvin L. Shiba Kokan: artist,
innovator, and pioneer in the westernization of Japan. New
York: Weatherhill, 1974.
-------. Through Closed Doors: Western
Influence on Japanese Art 1639-1853. Kobe, Japan and Rochester,
Michigan: Kobe City Museum of Nanban Art, 1977.
Fuminori, Yokoe. "Between the Arrival
of the Camera Obscura and the Daguerrotype in Japan," The
Advent of Photography in Japan. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan
Museum of Photography, 1997.

Keene, Donald. The Japanese discovery
of Europe, 1720-1830. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1969.

Markus, Andrew L. "The Carnival
of Edo: Misemono Spectacles from Contemporary Accounts."
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 45.2 (1985). 499-541.
Takeuchi, Melinda. Taigas True Views: The Language
of Landscape Painting in Eighteenth-Century Japan. Stanford:
Stanford UP, 1992.
Screech, Timon. "The Meaning of Western Perspective in
Edo Popular Culture." Archives of Asian Art. XLVII
(1994). 58-68.
-------. The Western Scientific Gaze
and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan. Cambridge, UK and
New York: Cambridge UP, 1996) 31-60.
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