Full Description
Block Printing & Book Illustration in Japan (1924) was one of the first guides to Japanese illustration, and remains indispensable to this day. The author travelled widely in Japan, persuading Japanese collectors to open their archives to her for study, and here compiles a wealth of unique research.
Contents
1. Early Printing and Engraving in Japan 2. Illustrated Books of the Seventeenth Century 3. Moronobu, Itchō, Kōrin and their Followers 4. Ōsaka as an Art and Publishing Centre 5. The Impressionists: the Shijō and Maruyama Schools 6. The Impressionists: the Ganku and the Chinese Schools 7. Ukiyo-ye Illustrators of the Nishikawa, Okumura, Torii and Nishimura Groups 8. Ukiyo-ye Illustrators of the Utagawa, Katsugawa and Kitagawa Schools 9. Late Ukiyo-ye Illustrators 10. Modern Illustrators of Japan 11. Miscellaneous Books 12. Suggestions to Collectors
