Manga from the floating world : comicbook culture and the kibyōshi of Edo Japan / Adam L. Kern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kern, Adam L., author.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 279.

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 279

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kusazōshi.

Comic books, strips, etc--Japan.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Japanese fiction--Edo period, 1600-1868--History and criticism.

Japanese fiction.

Japanese fiction--Edo period.

Japan.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 567 pages ; 29 cm.

Edition:

Second edition with a new preface.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center, 2019.

Summary:

"The first full-length study in English of the kibyōshi, a genre of woodblock-printed comicbook widely read in late eighteenth-century Japan that became an influential form of political satire. The volume is copiously illustrated with rare prints from Japanese archival collections"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I. The kibyōshi (a study): Introduction: A little yellow comicbook

The floating world in an'ei-tenmei Edo

The blossom of pulp fiction

Manga culture and the visual-verbal imagination

The rise and pratfall of the kibyōshi

Part II. Translations: A note on reading backwards

A note on translating the kibyōshi

Those familiar bestsellers

Playboy, roasted a la Edo

The unseamly silverpiped swingers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Edition:

Revision of: 0674022661 Kern, Adam L. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2006

ISBN:

9780674241787

0674241789

9780674241763

0674241762

OCLC:

1090279690