Manga from the Floating World by Adam L. Kern

Harvard University Asia Center
Manga from the Floating World by Adam L. Kern
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.