Japanese popular prints : from votive slips to playing cards

Japanese popular prints : from votive slips to playing cards / Rebecca Salter.

"Approaching the subject as an artist rather than a print scholar, Rebecca Salter focuses on the craftsmen and the complex visual culture within which they worked. Through information gained from interviews with some of the remaining practitioners and analysis of the objects themselves, she bui...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Salter, Rebecca, 1955-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Wood-engraving, Japanese > Edo period, 1600-1868 > Themes, motives.
Color prints, Japanese > Edo period, 1600-1868 > Themes, motives.
Printed ephemera > Japan.
Table of Contents:
  • History, method, context
  • A brief history of printing in Japan
  • The woodblock technique
  • Edo society
  • The art of play
  • Knowledge, news, views
  • Books
  • Calendars
  • Programmes and lists
  • News-sheets
  • The art of travel
  • maps, guides and gazetteers
  • Advertising
  • The outside world
  • Faith, fortune, general well-being
  • Votive slips and exchange slips
  • Catfish prints
  • Medicine prints
  • Smallpox prints and measles prints
  • Obituary prints
  • Leisure, pleasure, play
  • Playful prints and toy prints
  • Board games
  • Playing cards
  • Decorative papers.

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