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Designed for pleasure: the world of Edo Japan in prints and paintings, 1680-1860

Designed for pleasure: the world of Edo Japan in prints and paintings, 1680-1860
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ISBN 0295987863 (pbk.)
9780295987866 (pbk.)
Title Designed for pleasure : the world of Edo Japan in prints and paintings, 1680-1860 / edited by Julia Meech and Jane Oliver ; with essays by John T. Carpenter ... [et al.]
Publisher New York : Asia Society and Japanese Art Society of America in association with University of Washington Press, 2008
Physical desc. 256 p. ; col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Note Issued in connection with an exhibition held 27 February-4 May 2008, Asia Society and Museum, New York.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A mirror on the floating world / Donald Jenkins -- Hishikawa Moronobu: tracking down an elusive master / David Waterhouse -- The original source (accept no substitutes!): Okumura Masanobu / Sarah E. Thompson -- Suzuki Harunobu: the cult and culture of color / Allen Hockley -- Katsukawa Shunshō: Ukiyo-e paintings for the samurai elite / Timothy Clark -- Tsutaya Jūzaburō: master publisher / Julie Nelson Davis -- The literary network: private commissions for Hokusai and his circle / John T. Carpenter -- Designed for pleasure: Ukiyo-e as material culture / David Pollack.
Corporate name Asia Society -- Exhibitions
Subject Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- Exhibitions
Ukiyoe -- Exhibitions
Prints, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- Exhibitions
Painting, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- Exhibitions
Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1600-1868 -- Exhibitions
Added name(s) Meech, Julia ed.
Oliver, Jane (Jane W.) ed.
Carpenter, John T.
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Japanese Art Society of America
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