Manga from the Floating World by Adam L. Kern
Product Specifications
- Title: Manga from the Floating World by Adam L. Kern
- Author: Adam L. Kern
- Publisher: Harvard University & Asia Center
- Binding: Hardback
- Art forms
- No. of pages: 606
- Dimensions (approx. mm): 214 x 288 x 39
Product Description
Adam Kern offers a close reading of the vibrant popular imagination through kibyoshi a genre of sophisticated pictorial fiction from late-eighteenth-century Japan. Illustrated with rare prints from Japanese archival collections these entertaining works will appeal to the general reader as well as to the student of Japanese cultural history.