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 Kabuki’s 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. Taiga’s 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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