Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyōshi of EDO Japan, Second Edition, with a New Preface
(Book #279 in the Harvard East Asian Monographs Series)
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Manga from the Floating World is the first full-length study in English of the kibyōshi, a genre of woodblock-printed comic book widely read in late-eighteenth-century Japan. By combining analysis of the socioeconomic and historical milieus in which the genre was produced and consumed with three annotated translations of works by major author-artist Santō Kyōden (1761-1816) that closely reproduce the experience of encountering...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0674241762
ISBN13:9780674241763
Release Date:June 2019
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:606 Pages
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