基本説明
監修・解説：稲賀繁美（国際日本文化研究センター教授）。ヨネ・ノグチの浮世絵作家論に加え、『広重と日本の風景』『初期浮世絵論』『聖武天皇と正倉院』など、ノグチが単行本で出版した海外向け日本美術論をすべて復刻。
Full Description
This set provides the very first collection of Yone Noguchi's works in English, including all of his books of poetry, novels, and literary essays.
Yonejiro Noguchi (1875-1947), known in the West as Yone Noguchi, was an influential writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism in both English and Japanese. He was the only Japanese author who published original literary works in English, and he gained a strong reputation in Western cultural society before the Second World War. Along with his active writings of literary works, which were collected in the first part of the series, he played a leading role by interpreting Japanese culture and arts to Western society in the early twentieth century. He extensively wrote and lectured in English. In particular, he devoted his English efforts to promote Ukiyoe and traditional arts of Japan, and published ten books which are all reprinted here together with many colour plates and other illustrations.
Contents
Volume I Hiroshige and Japanese Landscapes (Tourist Library No. 2) (Tokyo: The Board of Tourist Industry, Japanese Government Railways, 1934). Korin (London: Elkin Mathews, 1922). Utamaro (London: Elkin Mathews, 1925). Hokusai (London: Elkin Mathews, 1925). Volume II Harunobu (London & Tokyo: Elkin Mathews & Dai-ici Shobo, 1927). Kiyonaga (Tokyo: Seibundo, 1932). Sharaku (Tokyo: Seibundo, 1932) Volume III The Ukiyoye Primitives (Tokyo, Private Publication, 1933). Emperor Shomu and the Shosoin (The Kyobunkwan Press, 1941).
