Utamaro: Portraits from the Floating World

Kobayashi, Tadashi

ISBN 10: 4770016670 / ISBN 13: 9784770016676

Published by Kodansha, NY, 1993

About this Item

As NEW BOOK and DJ, both MINT and with new Mylar. (Former owner's pressure stamp at bottom of front endpaper -- virtually invisible!). Seller Inventory # 007518

Bibliographic Details

Title: Utamaro: Portraits from the Floating World

Publisher: Kodansha, NY

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: Cloth Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis:

This volume presents the work of Utamaro, the master ukiyo-e portraitist of women. It includes colour reproductions from "Ten Studies of Female Physiognomy" and "Great Love Themes of Classical Poetry".

About the Author:

TADASHI KOBAYASHI, born in Tokyo and a graduate of the University of Tokyo, served as lecturer at the University of Nagoya and curator at the Tokyo National Museum. He has written extensively on Japanese art, particularly that of the Edo period. In English he is author of Ukiyo-e: An Introduction to Japanese Woodblock Prints, also published by Kodansha International.