A guide to Japanese prints and their subject matter / by Basil Stewart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, Basil, 1880-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gilbert, Shirley, and Marilyn Luber Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Subjects portrayed in Japanese colour-prints

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Color prints, Japanese--Edo period, 1600-1868.

Color prints, Japanese.

Color prints, Japanese--Edo period.

Ukiyoe.

Artists' marks.

Theater--Japan.

Theater.

Japan.

Theater in art.

Penn Provenance:

Luber, Gilbert, -1999 (bookplate) (former owner)

Luber, Shirley (bookplate) (former owner)

Shofuso Japanese House and Garden (donor)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi, 381 pages, 83 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Dover Publications, 1979.

Summary:

British connoisseur describes in detail the subject of famous Japanese color prints using 274 reproductions of works by Hokusai, Hiroshige, Utamaro, Shunyei, and other masters. Bibliography. Index.

Notes:

Reprint of the 1922 ed. published by Dutton, New York, under title: Subjects portrayed in Japanese colour-prints.

Includes index.

Bibliography: page 377.

ISBN:

0486238091 :

OCLC:

6085707