A Courtesan's Day: Hour by Hour (Famous Japanese Print Series) - Softcover

Seigle, Cecilia; Clark, Tim; Marks, Alfred; Newland, Amy Reigle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9074822592 ISBN 13: 9789074822596

Publisher: Hotei Publishing, 2004

Synopsis

A courtesan's day in the carefree atmosphere of the famous pleasure quarter the Yoshiwara in Edo (present-day Tokyo) was carefully planned to an hourly schedule. This sequence of 12 and later 24 hours proved a convenient device for Japanese print artists and their publishers when devising sets of prints showing favourite beauties of the day engaged in daily activities.
In this second volume of Hotei Publishing's Famous Japanese Prints Series, three sets centred on the theme of the hours of the clock in the pleasure quarters are discussed in detail:
A contextual and visual analysis of these works by the authors provides the reader with an insight into the broader cultural and artistic milieu of the early and later nineteenth century.

About this title

About the Author:

Alfred H. Marks is Professor Emeritus of American Literature at SUNY, New Paltz, New York, where he taught from 1963 to 1985.
Monika Hinkel recently finished completed her Ph.D. at the Department of Japanese Studies, Bonn University on the topic of the historical prints of Toyohara Kunichika, with a focus on the Western influences on his art.
Amy Reigle Newland has worked as a specialist editor and writer on Japanese woodblock prints for some fifteen years, with a particular interest in works of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Cecilia Segawa Seigle is Professor Emerita of Japanese Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania, where she taught from 1984 to 1999.
Harue M. Summersgill is Professor Emerita of Japanese Language and Literature at Chaminade University, Honolulu, where she taught from 1976 to 1997. Her publications and translation work include ‘The Influence of William James and Henry Bergson on Natsume Soseki’s Higan sugi made’ (Kyushu American Literature XXII, 1981) and Bonchi (by Yamasaki Toyoko; trans., 1982).

About this edition

• Publisher: Hotei Publishing
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 9074822592
• ISBN 13: 9789074822596
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160