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Yoshitoshi : one hundred aspects of the moon / text by John Stevenson.
Fine Arts Library Folio NE1325.T76 A4 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stevenson, John, 1944- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Taiso, Yoshitoshi, 1839-1892.
- Taiso, Yoshitoshi.
- Color prints, Japanese.
- Ukiyoe--Japan.
- Ukiyoe.
- Moon--In art.
- Moon.
- Japan.
- Genre:
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- 284 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 39 cm
- Edition:
- First Abbeville Press edition.
- Facsimile edition.
- Other Title:
- One hundred aspects of the moon
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Abbeville Press Publishers, [2018]
- Summary:
- Reproductions of Yoshitoshi's Tsuki hyakushi, with the story behind each design and technical details relating to the work's production. Includes a biography of the artist.
- Contents:
- Holding back the night, a biography
- One hundred aspects of the moon, an introduction
- Technical details
- Map of locations of the stories
- Timeline
- Dating Meiji prints
- Note on the lunar calendar
- Akiyama Buemon's albums
- Plates and commentaries.
- Notes:
- "A facsimile edition."
- "The impressions of the "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon" illustrated in this volume are from the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with the exception of plates 17, 69, 91, and 92, which belong to the British Museum"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 278) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the David F. & Stephanie B. Simon Collection Endowment.
- ISBN:
- 9780789213556
- 0789213559
- OCLC:
- 1129460693
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