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Manga from the floating world : comicbook culture and the kibyōshi of Edo Japan
- Title
- Manga from the floating world : comicbook culture and the kibyōshi of Edo Japan / Adam L. Kern.
- Author
- Kern, Adam L.
- Publication
- Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard University Asia Center, 2019.
- Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xxxii, 567 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 29 cm.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 279
- Uniform Title
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 279.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- The pages are laid out as follows: from the front cover towards the center of the book, pages xxxii, 1-250, 510-567; from the back cover towards the center of the book, pages 256-506.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-524) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFF 19-1864
- ISBN
- 9780674241787
- 0674241789
- 9780674241763
- 0674241762
- LCCN
- 2019010760
- 40029229044
- OCLC
- 1090279690
- Author
- Kern, Adam L., author.
- Title
- Manga from the floating world : comicbook culture and the kibyōshi of Edo Japan / Adam L. Kern.
- Publisher
- Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard University Asia Center, 2019.
- Distributor
- Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- Second edition with a new preface.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 279Harvard East Asian monographs ; 279.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-524) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1600-1868
- Other Editions:
- Revision of: Kern, Adam L. Manga from the floating world. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2006 0674022661 (DLC) 2006026130 (OCoLC)71005755
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029229044
- Research Call Number
- JFF 19-1864