Description
Book SynopsisIdentifies more than 2,500 designs of various formats and themes and demonstrates that Isoda Koryusai broadened the treatment of traditional print subjects. This book assesses Koryusai's significance from the perspective of consumer culture. It is intended for scholars as well as general readers.
Trade Review"Allen Hockley's long-awaited monograph on Isoda Korysai (1835-90) is a welcome addition to the literature on Japan's eighteenth-century print culture."
* CAA Reviews *
"Much more than an attempt to construct a place in the canon for a neglected artist. Thinking outside the box, Hockley shows how old paradigms have blinded us to other kinds of information that can be teased from print culture. Hockley admits that he has raised more questions than he can answer. In doing so, he has stimulated readers' intellect, offered a new model for scholarship, and given us a window on a world heretofore unchartered. What more could one ask?"
* Journal of Asian Studies *
"Splendid . . . . This impressive and stimulating book has forever altered how we look at ukiyo-e."
* Andon 75 *
"Allen Hockley is not a timid scholar. What he sets out in this book, using Isoda Koryusai (1735-1790) as a case study, is nothing less than a new methodology for the study of ukiyo-e..Used with skill and nuance, his new interpretive paradigm offers possibilities for thinking in ways that productively complicate and elucidate the recovery of meaning in Japanese prints, both past and present."
* Artibus Asiae *
Table of Contents1. Rationale and Approach
2. Early Ukiyo-e Histories and the Marginalization of Koryusai
3. Koryusai's Prints in Series
4. Courtesan Prints and the Hinagata Series
5. A Survey of Koryusai's Career
Appendixes
1. Prints in Series
2. Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyo
3. Hashira-e
4. Ichimai-e
5. Shunga
Notes
Bibliography
Index
