Image, Text and Audience is the first book dealing with paintings related to Taishokan, the most popular ballad-drama of the 16th century. Key narrative elements in the story include the transmission of a magic jewel from China to Japan and the succession of the Fujiwara family. The narrative provided motifs for historical accounts, Buddhist proselytising texts, a no play, puppet theatre plays, and satirical novels of the 18th century. This lavishly illustrated book is of interest to scholars of various disciplines including art history, literature, and religious studies. It offers the first annotated translation of the 1632 printed edition of the Taishokan and analyses painted versions on screens, scrolls, fans and manuscripts based on critical concepts and methodologies. The importance of the painting medium in shaping the visual content of each work is a pivotal aspect discussed in the book, along with questions of patronage, reception and gender.

Image, Text and Audience: The Taishokan Narrative in Visual Representations of the Early Modern Period in Japan (European University Studies)

Trede, Melanie

Arts & Photography

Peter Lang Publishing

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world," ukiyo-e was a particular genre of art that flourished between the 17th and 19th centuries and came to characterize the Western world's visual idea of Japan. In many ways images of hedonism, ukiyo-e scenes often represented the bright lights and attractions of Edo (modern-day Tokyo): beautiful women, actors and wrestlers, city life, and spectacular landscapes.Though he captured a variety of subjects, Hiroshige was most famous for landscapes, with a final masterpiece series known as "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" (1856-1858), which depicted various scenes of the city through the seasons, from bustling shopping streets to splendid cherry orchards.This reprint, bound in the traditional Japanese fashion, is made from one of the finest complete original sets of woodblock prints belonging to the Ota Memorial Museum of Art in Tokyo. It pairs each of the 120 illustrations with a description, allowing readers to immerse themselves in these beautiful, vibrant vistas that became paradigms of Japonisme and inspired Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Art Nouveau artists alike, from Vincent van Gogh to James McNeill Whistler.

Hiroshige. One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Bichler, Lorenz

History & Criticism

Taschen America, LLC

Image, Text and Audience is the first book dealing with paintings related to Taishokan, the most popular ballad-drama of the 16th century. Key narrative elements in the story include the transmission of a magic jewel from China to Japan and the succession of the Fujiwara family. The narrative provided motifs for historical accounts, Buddhist proselytising texts, a nô play, puppet theatre plays, and satirical novels of the 18th century. This lavishly illustrated book is of interest to scholars of various disciplines including art history, literature, and religious studies. It offers the first annotated translation of the 1632 printed edition of the Taishokan and analyses painted versions on screens, scrolls, fans and manuscripts based on critical concepts and methodologies. The importance of the painting medium in shaping the visual content of each work is a pivotal aspect discussed in the book, along with questions of patronage, reception and gender.

Image, Text and Audience: The "Taishokan" Narrative in Visual Representations of the Early Modern Period in Japan (Europäische Hochschulschriften / ... / Publications Universitaires Européennes)

Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Hiroshige's Edo: Masterful ukiyo-e woodblock prints of Tokyo in the mid-19th century Literally meaning ""pictures of the floating world,"" [b]ukiyo-e refers to the famous Japanese woodblock print genre[/b] that originated in the 17th century and is practically synonymous with the Western world's visual characterization of Japan. Because they could be mass produced, ukiyo-e works were often used as designs for fans, New Year's greeting cards, single prints, and book illustrations, and traditionally they depicted city life, entertainment, beautiful women, kabuki actors, and landscapes. The influence of ukiyo-e in Europe and the USA, often referred to as Japonisme, can be seen in everything from impressionist painting to today's manga and anime illustration. This reprint is made from one of the finest complete original set of woodprints belonging to the Ota Memorial Museum of Art in Tokyo.

Hiroshige: Hundert berühmte Ansichten von Edo

Taschen Deutschland GmbH+

«Cette édition japonaise luxueuse présentée en coffret transcende le cliché des livres que l’on trouve sur les tables basses en associant l’information à la beauté.»― ARTnews Magazine, New YorkUkiyo-e signifie littéralement «images du monde flottant» et renvoie à l’art célèbre de la gravure sur bois japonaise, apparu au XVIIe siècle, et qui domine aujourd’hui encore la représentation que l’occident se fait du Japon. Parce qu’elles pouvaient être reproduites à grande échelle, les œuvres ukiyo-e servaient souvent de motifs pour orner les éventails, les cartes célébrant la nouvelle année, des estampes uniques ou pour illustrer des livres et représentaient traditionnellement la vie citadine, les divertissements, les belles femmes, les acteurs de kabuki comme les paysages. L’influence de l’ukiyo-e en Europe et aux États-Unis, qu’on a qualifiée de «japonisme», se ressent aussi bien dans les tableaux impressionnistes que dans les mangas ou les films d’animation d’aujourd’hui. Cette réédition a été réalisée grâce à l’une des plus belles séries complètes de gravures sur bois d’origine appartenant à l’Ota Memorial Museum of Art à Tokyo.Hiroshige (1797-1858) fut l’un des derniers artistes majeurs de la tradition de l’ukiyo-e. Si Hiroshige a traité des sujets très divers, son talent éclate surtout dans sa manière d’aborder les paysages de sa ville natale d’Edo (l’actuel Tokyo), son œuvre la plus célèbre demeure d’ailleurs la série qui leur est consacrée: les «Cent vues célèbres d’Edo» (1856-1858). Chacune des 120 reproductions grand format de cette sublime réédition intégrale s’accompagne d’une description permettant aux lecteurs de se plonger dans les paysages débordant de vie d’Hiroshige.

Hiroshige. Cent Vues Célèbres D'edo

"This luxurious Japanese-bound, boxed publication transcends the coffee table cliché by combining beauty with information." --ARTnews Magazine, New York Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world," ukiyo-e refers to the famous Japanese woodblock print genre that originated in the 17th century and is practically synonymous with the Western world's visual characterization of Japan. Because they could be mass produced, ukiyo-e works were often used as designs for fans, New Year's greeting cards, single prints, and book illustrations, and traditionally they depicted city life, entertainment, beautiful women, kabuki actors, and landscapes. The influence of ukiyo-e in Europe and the United States, often referred to as Japonisme, can be seen in everything from impressionist painting to today's manga and anime illustration. This reprint is made from one of the finest complete original sets of woodblock prints belonging to the Ota Memorial Museum of Art in Tokyo. Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Though he captured a variety of subjects, his greatest talent was in creating landscapes of his native Edo (modern-day Tokyo) and his final masterpiece was a series known as "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" (1856-1858). This resplendent complete reprint pairs each of the 120 large-scale illustrations with a description, allowing readers to plunge themselves into Hiroshige's beautifully vibrant landscapes.

Hiroshige. Cien famosas vistas de Edo

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning “pictures of the floating world,” ukiyo-e was a particular genre of art that flourished between the 17th and 19th centuries and came to characterize the Western world’s visual idea of Japan. In many ways images of hedonism, ukiyo-e scenes often represented the bright lights and attractions of Edo (modern-day Tokyo): beautiful women, actors and wrestlers, city life, and spectacular landscapes.
Though he captured a variety of subjects, Hiroshige was most famous for landscapes, with a final masterpiece series known as “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo” (1856–1858), which depicted various scenes of the city through the seasons, from bustling shopping streets to splendid cherry orchards.
This reprint is made from one of the finest complete original sets of woodblock prints belonging to the Ota Memorial Museum of Art in Tokyo. It pairs each of the 120 illustrations with a description, allowing readers to immerse themselves in these beautiful, vibrant vistas that became paradigms of Japonisme and inspired Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Art Nouveau artists alike, from Vincent van Gogh to James McNeill Whistler.

This publication focuses on the collection of Japanese secular painting in the Museum of East Asian Art in Cologne, a large part of which was acquired by the museums founders Adolf and Frieda Fischer before 1913. Six internationally renowned specialists of Japanese art present new insights and approaches to pre-modern Japanese visual culture in this exquisitely illustrated catalogue.The publication is divided into two parts: the first section discusses the reception of Japanese art and the dawn of East Asian art history in Germany, as well as shedding new light on the role of the monk painter as mediator between Chinese and Japanese concepts of secular art. The main body of the publication is the catalogue section. Here, 94 works (divided into seven subject categories) are presented: hand scrolls, fans, hanging scrolls and folding screens. All works are reproduced in full colour, many scrolls being shown in their entirety. Each chapter is preceded by an introduction, elucidating the historiographical, aesthetic and methodological questions that are central to current research in the visual culture of pre-modern Japan. The illuminating entries are followed by a comprehensive appendices section, including photographs of the paintings signatures, seals and transcriptions of the inscriptions in the paintings. Splendid Impressions will serve as a reference source not only for curators, scholars and students of Japanese art and culture, but also for anyone who has a personal interest in Japanese painting.

Splendid Impressions: Japanese Secular Painting 1400-1900, in the Museum of East Asian Art Cologne

McKelway, Matthew

Lippit, Yukio

McCormick, Melissa

Mostow, Joshua S.

Croissant, Doris

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Image, Text and Audience: The Taishokan Narrative in Visual Representations of the Early Modern Period in Japan (European University Studies)

Hiroshige. One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Image, Text and Audience: The "Taishokan" Narrative in Visual Representations of the Early Modern Period in Japan (Europäische Hochschulschriften / ... / Publications Universitaires Européennes)

Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Hiroshige: Hundert berühmte Ansichten von Edo

Hiroshige. Cent Vues Célèbres D'edo

Hiroshige. Cien famosas vistas de Edo

Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Hiroshige. One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Splendid Impressions: Japanese Secular Painting 1400-1900, in the Museum of East Asian Art Cologne