| A Courtesan's Day: Hour by Hour Contributor(s): Segawa Seigle, Cecilia (Contribution by), Marks, Alfred H. (Contribution by), Summersgill, Harue (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 9074822592 ISBN-13: 9789074822596 Publisher: Hotei Publishing OUR PRICE: $52.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2004 Annotation: 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 twelve and later twenty-four hours proved a convenient device for Japanese print artists and their publishers when devising sets of prints showing favorite beauties of the day engaged in daily activities. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Asian - General - Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General |
| Dewey: 769.952 |
| Series: Famous Japanese Prints |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 8.86" W x 11.08" (2.26 lbs) 182 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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: - Kitagawa Utamaro's The Twelve Hours of the 'Green Houses' (Seirō jūnitoki, c. 1794) - Tsukioka Yoshitoshi's Twenty-four Hours in Shinbashi and Yanagibashi (Shinryū nijūyoji, 1880-81) - Toyohara Kunichika's Scenes of the Twenty-four Hours, A Prictorial Trope (Mitate chūya nijūyoji, 1890-91) 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. |