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Dear Friends, This year, Brills Asian Art folder moves beyond the much-loved images of Hotei Publishing to include a number of other titles devoted to the subject. In 2010, Brill acquired Global Oriental, extending the depth of scholarship, to include, among other titles, Korean visual arts. For the stalwart Japanese Art lovers, Hotei Publishing has a number of new titles available in 2011, and, as ever, each page is a work of art in itself. We hope that we can tempt you with a taste of the color and richness of our titles in this folder. For more information you are invited to visit brill.nl, where we have special pages for Hotei publishing brill.nl/hotei; Global Oriental brill.nl/globaloriental and the central Asian Studies page brill.nl/asianstudies. We also now tweet! Follow Hotei on twitter at twitter.com/hoteipublishing. We are always delighted to hear from you, whether about projects you would like to discuss with our Acquisitions Editor, Inge Klompmakers klompmakers@brill.nl, or enquiries about products you would like to know more about via marketing@brill.nl. With best wishes, Marketing at Brill

Portraits of Chgen
The Transformation of Buddhist Art in Early Medieval Japan
John Rosenfield, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of East Asian Art, Emeritus, and Curator of Asian Art in the Harvard University Art Museums, Emeritus.
November 2010 ISBN 978 90 04 16864 0 Cloth with dustjacket (240 pp.) List price EUR 93.- /US$ 132. Japanese Visual Culture, 1 This volume, the first in Brills Japanese Visual Culture series, vividly describes the efforts of the Japanese monk Shunjb Chgen (11211206) to

restore major buildings and works of art lost in a brutal civil conflict in 1180. Chgen is best known for his role in the recasting of the Great Buddha (Daibutsu) and the reconstructing of the South Great Gate (Nandaimon) of Tdaiji in Nara and its huge, dramatic wooden guardian figures. This study concentrates on these and other replacement statues and buildings associated with Chgen and situates the visual arts of Japan into the spiritual and socio-political context of their times. Through meticulous study of dedicatory material, Rosenfield is able to place the splendid Buddhist statues made for Chgen in vivid new light. The volume also explores how Japans rulers employed the visual arts as instruments of government policy a tactic that recurs throughout the nations history. This publication includes an annotated translation of

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Chgens memoir, completed near the end of his life, in which he recounts his many achievements. In chapters on East Asian portraiture, Rosenfield claims that surviving statues of Chgen, carved with mordant realism, rank among the worlds most eloquent portraits, and herald the great changes that were to permeate Japanese religious and secular arts in the centuries to come. While Chgen has been the subject of major art exhibitions and extensive research in Japan; this is the first book-length study to appear in the West.

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Surimono in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Matthi Forrer, Leiden University/ National Museum of Ethnology
July 2011 ISBN 978 90 74822 40 4 Hardback (320 pp., 600 color & b/w illus.) List price EUR 110.- /US$ 163.This catalogue includes more than 600 surimono drawn from the splendid Amsterdam Rijksmuseum collection of Japanese prints. surimono (lit. printed object) are privately published prints inscribed with a dedication or poem that reflects upon everyday themes. All surimono are reproduced in color along with extensive descriptions by Matthi Forrer. This publication will be an important reference work in the study of surimono.

Publishers of Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Compendium

Andreas Marks, Leiden University
December 2010 ISBN 978 90 04 18531 9 Hardback (576 pp.) List price EUR 139.- /US$ 195.-

Japanese woodblock prints exemplified by such iconographic images as Hokusais Great Wave, Hiroshiges Heavy Rain on Ohashi bridge, or Utamaros enticing beauties, constitute one of the most important and influential art forms in art history. This volume champions the publisher the enabler without whom the great artworks which influenced painters like Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh and others, would never have been produced. Publishers of Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Compendium focuses on the production process of Japanese woodblock prints with an emphasis on the role of the publisher. This publication presents over 1,100 publishers, with comprehensive lists of publications by a total of 572 artists and facsimiles of over 2300 publisher seals, spanning a time period from the 1650s to the 1990s. The publisher entries include details

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on the residence of a publisher, his clientele, the period of his commercial activity as well as a list of issued print series in chronological order. This listing offers insight into the status and versatility of a publisher, as well as indicating the publishers specialities, favoured artists and the particular strategies pursued. With almost 600 pages of information on the publishers of Japanese woodblock prints, this publication is an essential reference work for scholars and collectors of Japanese prints alike.

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The Beauty of Silence

Japanese N and Nature Prints by Tsukioka Kgyo (1869-1927)
Robert Schaap & J. Thomas Rimer
October 2010 ISBN 978 90 04 19385 7 Cloth with dustjacket (192 pp.) List price EUR 79.- /US$ 112.The Beauty of Silence. Japanese N and Nature Prints by Tsukioka Kgyo (1867-1927) is the first monograph in English on Tsukioka Kgyo, one of the lesser-known exponents of Japanese woodblock prints of the Meiji period (1868-1912). This publication exposes Kgyos life and work, presenting a detailed and

abundantly-illustrated overview of his rich oeuvre of prints and paintings, and places them in the context of his times. For the first time, Kgyos life and work are accessible to readers throughout the world. Kgyo is particularly well-known for his many depictions of the N, Japans elegant and poetic theatrical form, dating back to medieval times. Performances of N continue to have wide audiences even today, with admirers not only in Japan, but throughout Asia, Europe and the United States. Kgyo often created unusual images of the theatrical productions he attended, and his prints provide fascinating visual clues and insights into how these classic plays were actually performed during his lifetime. In these theatrical prints, Kgyo created images of an evocative beauty that are comparable

with the work of some of the great artists in the European tradition who also recorded the theatrical practices of their times. The Beauty of Silence illustrates a range of Kgyos works on a variety of subjects, including landscapes, as well as samples of his art created in other media. The publication includes his biography, historical information on the N, a detailed analysis of the prints, and useful information on each of the N plays pictured. The appendices section includes listings of more than a hundred artist-seals used by Kgyo, an index of N plays and illustrations of all 120 prints belonging to Kgyos famous print series Ngaku hyakuban (One Hundred N Plays). This book, with almost 400 full color illustrations, will be of wide interest both to lovers of woodblock prints and to those interested in the power and beauty of Japans theatrical traditions.

Crows, Cranes & Camellias (Expanded Reprint)

The natural World of Ohara Koson 1877-1945
Amy Reigle Newland, Jan Perre and Robert Schaap
December 2009 ISBN 978 90 04 18106 9 Cloth with dustjacket (224 pp.) List price EUR 95.- /US$ 140.-

The work of print artist Ohara Koson (1877-1945) mainly consists of prints of birds and flowers, characterized by their peaceful charm. This book about Koson is the first Western publication of his oeuvre of prints and paintings. It provides all known information on the artists life and work, his teachers and publishers, facsimiles of his signatures and seals and illustrations of an estimated seventy-five percent of his total print output, now kept in the splendid collection of Japanese prints in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. First published in 2001, this new edition features an additional chapter on Kosons oeuvre and designs which have been discovered since the original publication of Crows, Cranes and Camellias. This title is the definitive reference book for Koson collectors.

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Reading Surimono
The Interplay of Text and Image in Japanese Prints. With a catalogue of the Marino Lusy Collection
Edited by John T. Carpenter, SOAS, University of London
December 2008 ISBN 978 90 04 16841 1 Cloth with dustjacket (432 pp., over 400 colour illus.) List price EUR 99.- /US$ 147.This full-colour catalogue illustrates and describes over 300 surimono (privately published deluxe Japanese prints) belonging to the Graphics Collection of the Museum of Design Zurich, which were recently placed on long-term loan to the Museum Rietberg Zurich. Originally bequeathed to the Museum of Design by the Swiss collector Marino Lusy (1880-1954), the collection includes many rare and previously unpublished examples. Edited by John T. Carpenter, with contributions from a distinguished roster of Edo art and literary specialists, this groundbreaking scholarly publication investigates surimono as a hybrid genre combining literature and art. Introductory essays treat issues such as text-image interaction and iconography, poetry and intertextuality, as well as the operation of Kabuki fan clubs and poetry circles in late 18th and early 19th century Japan. Other essays document Lusys accomplishments as a talented lithographer inspired by East Asian art, and as an astute collector who acquired prints from Parisian auction houses and dealers in the early 20th century. Translations of kyoka (31-witty verse) that accompany images are given for all prints. The volume also includes a comprehensive index of poets with Japanese characters. This publication is not only indispensable to specialists in ukiyo-e, but has much to offer any reader interested in traditional Japanese art and literature.

Kawase Hasui
The Complete Woodblock Prints
Kendall H. Brown, California State University, with an Essay by Watanabe Shichir. General Editor: Amy Reigle Newland. Catalogue Contributors: Inge Klompmakers, Merel Molenaar, Amy Reigle Newland, Okura Haruko, Dick N.W. Raatgever, Robert Schaap and Chris Uhlenbeck.
November 2008 ISBN 978 90 74822 46 6 Cloth with dustjacket (592 pp., 617 color & 131 b/w illus. (incl. DVD)) List price EUR 265.- /US$ 413.-

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Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) is considered the foremost Japanese landscape print artist of the 20th century. His work is characterized by a fascination with light, climatic conditions and tranquility. His oeuvre consists of over 700 designs of which the largest proportion was produced for the initiator of the Shin hanga (new print) movement, Watanabe Shzabur. This publication illustrates his oeuvre in color

including all the designs he produced for other publishers. The illustrations are predominantly taken from the two largest collections of Hasui prints in the world: the collections of Robert O. Muller, now housed in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Art, and the Watanabe family. This bilingual publication includes essays by Kendall Brown and Shichir Watanabe, facsimiles of seals

and signatures and a bibliography. Originally published in 2003, this groundbreaking publication on the life and work of Kawase Hasui is now available with a DVD, which includes a 1950s film on the artist and the production of one of his designs, a process book displaying all stages in the creation of a Japanese woodblock print, and designs which have been discovered since 2003.

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Hiroshige, Shaping the Image of Japan

Chris Uhlenbeck & Marije Jansen
October 2008 ISBN 978 90 04 17195 4 Paperback (112 pp., over 140 color illus.) List price EUR 25.- /US$ 39.Hiroshige Shaping the Image of Japan is a comprehensive overview of Hiroshiges work as a woodblock print artist. Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) is one of the great masters in the history of Japanese printmaking and this publication coincides with the 150th anniversary of his death. Hiroshige has worked in virtually every genre of ukiyo-e

A Brush With Animals

Japanese Paintings 1700-1950

Robert Schaap, with essays by Willem van Gulik, Henk Herwig, Arendie Herwig-Kempers, Daniel McKee and Andrew Thompson
or images of the floating world. He designed prints of beautiful women and brave heroes, but achieved his greatest fame through his depictions of the Japanese landscape, showing famous places in different seasons and at various times of day. These landscape prints, with their bright colors and strong compositions, were not only popular in Japan, but also found favor with European artists at the turn of the 19th century. The main body of this publication includes a general introduction, sketching the cultural and economic environment of the artist Hiroshige, the development of his oeuvre, and the rise of his his artistic reputation in Japan and the West. This is followed by a chronological presentation of 140 full-color prints, selected from public and private collections. Biographical data are sparse and only very few details of his life help explain the nature of his output. However, by carefully piecing together the information which can be gleaned from the works themselves, and combining it with the current knowledge on print production methods, the authors present a picture of Hiroshige as an artistcum-craftsman who efficiently produced for his publishers, creating in the process an image of Japan which endures until this day. December 2007 ISBN 978 90 70216 07 8 Cloth with dustjacket (206 pp., 275 color illus. with English texts) List price EUR 79.- / US$ 117.Japan has a long and rich tradition of using animal imagery in works of art. A Brush with Animals, Japanese Painting 1700-1950 gives an overview of Japanese animal painting,

covering some 250 years, with an emphasis on works by artists of the naturalistic Shij School. It illustrates the wonderful variety of animals that figure in Japanese iconography, including the 12 animals of the zodiac and many mythological creatures. The reader is thus taken on a tour through the animal kingdom, which is profusely illustrated with no less than 300 color images. A selection of essays explains in great detail the stories and legends behind the animal imagery and provides background information on the practical aspects and social context of Japanese hanging scroll paintings. A useful tool for the collector and a delight for anyone sensitive to the beauty of Japanese art. A Brush with Animals was selected from collections of members of the Society for Japanese Arts (private and museum collections), to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Society. Many of the paintings are published here for the first time.

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As a Japanese bestiary, this collection () is representative and sensitively presented. As a record of the bond between man and beast, it is moving as well. And as a commemoration of the Japanese animal kingdom, it is splendid. Donald Richie, The Japan Times.

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Competition and Collaboration

Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School
Laura Mueller, University of Wisconsin-Madison, with essays by Fujisawa Akane, Kobayashi Tadashi and Ellis Tinios
October 2007 ISBN 978 90 04 15539 8 Cloth with dustjacket (232 pp., over 220 color illus.) List price EUR 79.- /US$ 108.-

The prolific Utagawa school is one of the most famous lineages of print artists in the history of Japanese woodblock prints. It was founded by Utagawa Toyoharu during the second half of the eighteenth century and remained active in Edo, present-day Tokyo, throughout the nineteenth century. During this period, Utagawa-school artists dominated virtually every genre of ukiyo-e prints, or pictures of the floating world, including pictures of beautiful women, prints of kabuki actors, warrior prints, erotica, and landscape pictures. Colorful, technically innovative, and sometimes defiant of government regulations, these prints documented for a popular audience the pleasures of urban life, leisure, and travel. The diverse works by Utagawa Kunisada, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Utagawa Hiroshige, and others reflected the changing social, economic,

and political conditions present during the closing century of the Edo period (1615-1868) and early years of the Meiji period (1868-1912). This 232-page groundbreaking catalogue features fullcolor images of more than 200 prints from the renowned Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints at the Chazen Museum of Art, University of WisconsinMadison. This collection a number of which were once part of Frank Lloyd Wrights personal collection of Japanese prints is particularly noteworthy for its strong holdings of landscape prints including rare designs incorporating western perspective by the schools founder Toyoharu. The book includes explicated entries for each work, artist biographies, and five scholarly essays about Japanese print culture and the Utagawa school.

Japanese Warrior Prints 1646-1905

James King, McMaster University & Yuriko Iwakiri
May 2007 ISBN 978 90 74822 84 8 Cloth with dustjacket (400 pp., over 200 color illus.) List price EUR 94.- /US$ 129.-

Japanese Warrior Prints 16461905 is the first publication in the English language devoted entirely to the most neglected of the major genres in the history of Ukiyo-e: musha-e or images of warriors. These works recreate in vivid detail the tales of great heroes and battles of Japanese history, especially from the tenth through sixteenth centuries. The publication is divided into two parts. The first is an Introduction to the genre of musha-e, including a discussion of the evolution of the genre and the various influences that came to play on its development. The second comprises a Catalogue of over 200 full-color illustrations dating from the mid-seventeenth to twentieth centuries which have been grouped into sixteen subject categories.

The Hundred Poets Compared

A Print Series by Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige, and Kunisada
Henk J. Herwig, Andon Magazine and Joshua S. Mostow, University of British Columbia
April 2007 ISBN 978 90 74822 82 4 Cloth with dustjacket (256 pp., 118 color illus.) List price EUR 93.- /US$ 138.-

The Hundred Poets Compared is about a 100-print series made by three famous Ukiyo-e artists of the 19th century: Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige, and Kunisada. Each print compares one of the poems from the most-beloved collection of Japanese poetry, The One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each (Hyakunin Isshu), with a scene from Japanese history or theatre. Begun during the repressive Tenp Reforms, the series includes many surreptitious portraits of popular actors. Herwig and Mostow explain each episode depicted and its connection to its particular poem, providing a translation of the commentary text on each print and the identification of actors and performances. This work will be welcome to Ukiyo-e collectors and scholars, as well as those interested in Kabuki and Japanese legends.

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The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints

General Editor: Amy Reigle Newland. Specialist Advisers: Julie Nelson Davis, Oikawa Shigeru, Ellis Tinois and Chris Uhlenbeck
January 2005 ISBN 978 90 74822 65 7 Hardback (2 vols., 600 pp. over 300 color illus.) List price EUR 195.- /US$ 267.-

The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints will serve as a source of quick reference as well as an in-depth study of all aspects of Japanese prints from the Edo (1600-1868) to Taish (1912-26) periods. The first section of The Hotei Encyclopedia is divided into four main subject areas: historical back- ground, the art history of Ukiyo-e prints, print production (materials and techniques, the publishing trade) and the history of collecting Japanese prints, with a shorter fifth section on conservation. Each subject area contains a longer survey article which is accompanied by shorter essays that highlight specific topics pertaining to Japanese prints and their development. The second section of the book comprises an extensive alphabetical listing of well over a 2000 carefully cross-referenced entries on individual print designers and schools,

publishers, carvers, printers and collectors, major Kabuki actors, materials and techniques, conservation, subject-matter/iconography, literature and miscellaneous print-related terminology. This is followed by various appendices, including such aspects as seals of publishers and carvers, signatures, maps and chronological tables. With this ambitious project Hotei Publishing hopes to fill the gap for an extensive reference work and introduction to Japanese prints, one that will prove a valuable resource for teachers and students, art collectors, librarians and interested lay-people alike.

The bulk of the encyclopedia are essays written by fifty experts dealing with the many technical, genre, and evolutionary aspects of the woodblock prints. As I read the encyclopedia from cover to cover, the quality of the essays struck me as consistently quite high, evidence of good editing For collectors, the encyclopedia offers information on what to look for in quality, artist and publisher identification, and other critical details The Hotei encyclopedia is an excellent starting point for collectors. Todd Shimoda, The Asian Review of Books, 2006.

Japanese Erotic Prints

Shunga by Harunobu and Korysai
Inge Klompmakers

Chikanobu
Modernity and Nostalgia in Japanese Prints
Bruce A. Coats, with essays by Allen Hockley, Kyoko Kurita and Joshua Mostow
October 2006 ISBN 978 90 74822 88 6 Cloth with dustjacket (208 pp., 280 color illus.) List price EUR 79.- /US$ 108.-

Heroes of the Grand Pacification

Kuniyoshis Taiheiki eiy den
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Japanese Erotic Fantasies

Sexual Imagery of the Edo Period
Edited by Chris Uhlenbeck and Margarita Winkel
January 2005 ISBN 978 90 74822 66 4 Cloth with dustjacket (248 pp., 277 color illus.) List price EUR 79.- /US$ 117.-

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January 2008 ISBN 978 90 74822 37 4 Paperback (160 pp.) List price EUR 39.- /US$ 53.-

January 2006 ISBN 978 90 74822 69 5 Cloth with dustjacket (192 pp., 50 color & 16 b/w illus.) List price EUR 79.- /US$ 108.-

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Strong Women, Beautiful Men

Japanese Portrait Prints from the Toledo Museum of Art
Laura Mueller

Visions of Japan
Kawase Hasuis Masterpieces

Hiroshiges Journey in the 60-odd Provinces

A Courtesans Day Hour by Hour

Essays by Cecilia Segawa Seigle, Alfred H. Marks, Harue M. Summersgill, Amy Reigle Newland and Monika Hinkel, with assistance from Kodaira Takashi and Ishigami Hidemi
January 2004 ISBN 978 90 74822 59 6 Paperback (182 pp., 67 color illus.) List price EUR 39.- /US$ 53. Famous Japanese Prints Series, 2

Heroes of the Kabuki Stage

An Introduction to the World of Kabuki with Retellings of Famous Plays, illustrated by Woodblock Prints
Henk & Arendie Herwig

Printed to Perfection
Twentieth-century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection
Joan B. Mirviss, Amy Reigle Newland, Chris Uhlenbeck, Marije Jansen with Henk Herwig. General Editor: Amy Reigle Newland
January 2004 ISBN 978 90 74822 73 2 Paperback (132 pp., 123 color & 6 b/w illus.) List price EUR 29.- /US$ 40.-

Yoshitoshis One Hundred Aspects of the Moon

John Stevenson

The Female Image

20th Century Japanese Prints of Japanese Beauties
Shinji Hamanaka and Amy Reigle Newland

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Kendall H. Brown, California State University

Marije Jansen

January 2005 ISBN 978 90 74822 78 7 Paperback (96 pp., 58 color illus.) List price EUR 25.- /US$ 37.-

January 2004 Paperback (152 pp. 100 color illus.) ISBN 978 90 74822 68 8 List price EUR 45.- /US$ 67. Cloth with dustjacket (152 pp., 100 color illus.) ISBN 978 90 74822 80 0 List price EUR 93.- /US$ 138.-

January 2004 ISBN 978 90 74822 60 2 Paperback (176 pp., 80 color illus.) List price EUR 47.- /US$ 70. Famous Japanese Prints Series, 1

January 2004 ISBN 978 90 74822 61 9 Cloth with dustjacket (360 pp., 280 color illus.) List price EUR 89.- /US$ 132.-

January 2001 ISBN 978 90 74822 42 8 Cloth with dustjacket (272 pp., 165 color illus.) List price EUR 99.- /US$ 147.-

January 2000 ISBN 978 90 74822 20 6 Cloth with dustjacket (216 pp., 280 color illus.) List price EUR 99.- /US$ 147.-

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Mount Fuji
Sacred Mountain of Japan

Time Present and Time Past

Images of a forgotten Master: Toyohara Kunichika (1835 - 1900)
Amy Reigle Newland with an essay by Shigeru Oikawa
January 1999 ISBN 978 90 74822 11 4 Cloth with dustjacket (176 pp., 166 color & 6 b/w illus.) List price EUR 65.- /US$ 97.-

Japanese Export Lacquer 1580-1850

A Guide to Japanese Art Collections in the UK

Western Influences on Japanese Art

The Akita Ranga Art School and Foreign Books

Fine & Curious

Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections
Christiaan J.A. Jrg
January 2003 ISBN 978 90 74822 16 9 Cloth with dustjacket (304 pp., 420 color illus.) List price EUR 49.- /US$ 67.-

Japanese Export Porcelain

Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Oliver Impey
January 2002 ISBN 978 90 74822 39 8 Cloth with dustjacket (264 pp., 500 color illus.) List price EUR 49.- /US$ 67.-

Plunder and Pleasure

Japanese Art in the West, 1860-1930
Max Put
January 2000 ISBN 978 90 74822 09 1 Cloth with dustjacket (152 pp., 20 b/w illus.) List price EUR 51.- /US$ 76.-

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Chris Uhlenbeck and Merel Molenaar

January 2000 ISBN 978 90 74822 32 9 Paperback (128 pp., 128 color illus.) List price EUR 18.- /US$ 27.-

Oliver Impey and Christiaan Jrg

January 2005 ISBN 978 90 74822 72 5 Cloth with dustjacket (384 pp., 657 illus., mostly color) List price EUR 89.- /US$ 122.-

Gregory Irvine
January 2004 ISBN 978 90 74822 74 9 Paperback (204 pp., 90 color illus.) List price EUR 18.- /US$ 26.-

Hiroko Johnson
January 2005 ISBN 978 90 74822 64 0 Cloth with dustjacket (176 pp., 57 illus., some color) List price EUR 78.- /US$ 116.-

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Haiku & Haiga

Moments in Word and Image
Edited by Ron Manheim, Museum Schloss Moyland
January 2006 ISBN 978 90 74822 86 2 Cloth with dustjacket (208 pp., 79 color illus.) List price EUR 47.- /US$ 70.-

Reflecting Truth
Japanese Photography in the 19th Century
Edited by Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere and Mikiko Hirayama
January 2004 ISBN 978 90 74822 76 3 Paperback (112 pp., 60 b/w illus.) List price EUR 41.- /US$ 61.-

The Shamisen: Tradition and Diversity

Henry Johnson
January 2007 ISBN 978 90 04 18137 3 Cloth with dustjacket (xx, 145 pp.) List price: EUR 83.- /US$ 122.-

The Koto
A Traditional Instrument in Contemporary Japan
Henry Johnson
January 2004 ISBN 978 90 74822 63 3 Cloth with dustjacket (200 pp., 78 color & 23 b/w illus.) List price EUR 79.- /US$ 117.-

Written Texts Visual Texts

Woodblock-printed Media in Early Modern Japan
Edited by Susanne Formanek and Sepp Linhart
January 2005 ISBN 978 90 74822 58 9 Cloth with dustjacket (368 pp., 139 b/w illus.) List price EUR 97.- /US$ 138. European Studies on Japan, 3

The Commercial and Cultural Climate of Japanese Printmaking

Births and Rebirths in Japanese Art

Essays Celebrating the Inauguration of The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
Edited by Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere
January 2001 ISBN 978 90 74822 44 2 Cloth with dustjacket (232 pp., 21 color & 111 b/w illus.) List price EUR 82.- /US$ 117. European Studies on Japan, 1

Dismissed as elegant fossils

Konoe Nobutada and the role of aristocrats in Early Modern Japan

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Edited by Amy Reigle Newland

January 2004 ISBN 978 90 74822 49 7 Cloth with dustjacket (272 pp., 18 color & 48 b/w illus.) List price EUR 82.- /US$ 117. European Studies on Japan, 2

Lee Bruschke-Johnson
January 2004 ISBN 978 90 74822 52 7 Cloth with dustjacket (256 pp., 30 b/w illus.) List price EUR 79.- /US$ 117. Japonica Neerlandica, 9

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Hokusais Project
The Articulation of Pictorial Space
David Bell, University of Otago
February 2007 ISBN 978 19 05 24615 1 Hardback (224 pp.) List price EUR 77.- /US$ 105.-

This important new study on the great ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai is not so much about who he was or what he did, but rather an in-depth appreciation, involving close examination of some forty-four Hokusai prints, of why his works appear in the way they do and how he evolved

his own unique artistic style. Although a prolific artist, the focus is mostly on his later woodblock prints when his distinctive style, today recognized worldwide, became fully crystallized. Like so many of his contemporaries, faced with the same challenges of social, aesthetic, personal and contractual limitations, how was it that the Hokusai style or methodology emerged, and why was it so successful? The book opens with a discussion on how Hokusai broke with the pictorial habits of ukiyo-e, which then leads into an examination of three main themes: How Hokusai learned his trade; Hokusai, Mount Fuji and the articulation of pictorial space, and Hokusai flowers, poets and aesthetic detachment. In addition to a select bibliography, the book is supported by a valuable glossary of artistic terms.

Reading the Tale of Genji

Its Picture Scrolls, Texts and Romance
Edited by Richard Stanley-Baker, United International College, Zhuhai, Murakami Fuminobu, University of Hong Kong and Jeremy Tambling, University of Manchester
October 2009 ISBN 978 19 05 24675 5 Hardback (256 pp.) List price EUR 70.- /US$ 100.-

This new volume in Genji studies comprises a collection of six individual essays by leading international scholars addressing the Tale of Genji Scrolls and the Tale of Genji texts in the context of new critical theory relating to cultural studies, narrative painting, narratology, comparative literature and a global view of medieval romance. Uniquely, it also links new critical theory with multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary interests. Increasingly, scholarly research views reading The Tale of Genji Scrolls as an inseparable part of reading the Tale of Genji itself. Hence this book, which is subdivided into three sections: Reading the Genji Scrolls; Reading the Genji Texts; Reading the Genji Romance. The contributors are Yukio Lippit (Harvard), Sano Midori (Gakushuin), Richard Okada (Princeton), Murakami Fuminobu (Hong Kong), Jeremy Tambling (Manchester) and Richard Stanley-Baker (formerly Hong Kong).

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Symbolism in Korean Ink Brush Painting

Frank Mullany
July 2006 ISBN 978 19 01 90389 8 Hardback (414 pp.) List price EUR 87.- /US$ 119.With more than 200 colour plates, and for the first time available as a study in English, this volume explores the vast heritage of Korean ink brush painting, providing a rich panorama of information that stretches across the entire spectrum of Korean art including painting, pottery, calligraphy and literature, which will have wide appeal, not least to art lovers and

students of Korean Studies. Part I presents the material in essay form; Part II, which uses a dictionary format, summarizes the information in Part I and highlights the hidden messages and symbolism inherent in literati ink brush painting in Korea. When China and Japan opened up to outside influence in the nineteenth century, Korea maintained a closed-door policy, becoming known as the hermit kingdom, only to be swallowed up in the struggle for hegemony between the Great Powers. Annexation by Japan in 1910 threatened Koreas language and culture with extinction. Liberation in 1945 was followed by the tragedy of the Korean War in 1950. In the period of recon-struction after the Korean War, artists and scholars faced the task of retrieving Koreas endangered cultural tradition. Ink brush painting is a unique part of this tradition; its history stretches back through the Choson dynasty when Chinese influences were assimilated and absorbed and made into Koreas distinctive tradition.

An Illustrated Guide to Korean Mythology

Choi Won-Oh, University of Seoul
April 2008 ISBN 978 19 05 24660 1 Hardback (320 pp.) List price EUR 92.- /US$ 126.This highly engaging volume by one of Koreas leading scholars of comparative mythology the the first study of its kind in English provides a valuable introduction to centuries-old beliefs, myths and folk tales relating to Cosmology and Flood, Birth and Agriculture, Messengers of the Underworld, Shamans, Disease, Good Fortune, Love and Family, Gods of Village Shrines, and

Heroes. Containing thirty traditional stories, the book is fully illustrated throughout and contains a wide variety of Korean art, including rare shamanist paintings, as well as the work of some contemporary Korean artists. All the stories, based on Korean oral tradition, have been retold by the author according to their main plot and meaning because the original texts songs by shamans, containing many obsolete words and obscure idioms, are not easily understood today. The original title and source, including text notes, are provided at the end of each story. The authors Introduction sets out the historical background and significance of the myths that appear here. He also provides full details of each of the Korean gods and their roles in mythology. While being a welcome addition to the literature on Korean culture for the non-specialist, An Illustrated Guide to Korean Mythology also provides an invaluable reference source for scholars and researchers in the fields of East Asian Mythology and Anthropology, as well as Korean History, Religion and Literature.

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Anime and Its Roots in Early Japanese Monster Art

Zlia Papp, Saitama University
February 2010 ISBN 978 19 06 87618 0 Hardback (240 pp.) List price EUR 65.- /US$ 93.-

Japanese anime plays a major role in modern popular visual culture and aesthetics, yet this is the first study which sets out to put todays anime in historical context by tracking the visual links between Edo- and Meiji-period

painters and the post-war period animation and manga series Gegegeno Kitaro by Mizuki Shigeru. Through an investigation of the very popular Gegegeno Kitaro series, broadcast from the 1960s to the present time, the author is able

to pinpoint the visual roots of the animation characters in the context of ykai folklore and Edo- and Meiji- period monster painting traditions. Through analysing the changing images related to the representation of

monsters in the series, the book documents the changes in the perception of monsters over the last half-century, while at the same time reflecting on the importance of Mizukis work in keeping Japans visual traditions alive and educating new audiences about folk- lore by recasting ykai imagery in modern-day settings in an innovative way. In addition, by analysing and comparing character, set, costume and mask design, plot and storyline of ykai-themed films, the book is also the first study to shed light on the roles the representations of ykai have been assigned in post-war Japanese cinema. This book will be of particular interest to those studying Japanese visual media, including manga and animation, as well as students and academics in the fields of Japanese Studies, Animation Studies, Art History and Graphic Design.

Traditional Monster Imagery in Manga, Anime and Japanese Cinema

Zlia Papp, Hosei University, Tokyo
October 2010 ISBN 978 19 06 87652 4 Hardback (272 pp. including 4 colour illus.) List price EUR 85.- /US$ 124.-

Traditional Monster Imagery in Manga, Anime and Japanese Cinema builds on the earlier volume Anime and its Roots in Early Japanese Monster Art, that aimed to position contemporary Japanese animation within

a wider art historical context by tracing the development of monster representations in Edo- and Meiji-period art works and post-war visual media. While the previous volume concentrated on modern media representations, this work focuses on how Western art historical concepts and methodology might be adapted when considering non-Western works, introducing traditional monster art in more detail, while also maintaining its links to post-war animation, sequential art and Japanese cinema. The book aims at a general readership interested in Japanese art and media as well as graduate students who might be searching for a research model within the fields of Animation Studies, Media Studies or Visual Communication Design.

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Japan and The Illustrated London News

Complete Record of Reported Events, 18531899
Edited by Terry Bennett
September 2006 ISBN 978 19 01 90326 3 Hardback (422 pp.) List price EUR 153.- /US$ 210.The Illustrated London News, launched in 1842, was the worlds first illustrated newspaper and an immediate success. Its first report on Japan, however, was not until eleven years later when as a result of Commodore Perrys much discussed plan to open Japan it published a substantial piece entitled The United States Expedition to Japan in the issue of 7 May 1 853, opening with the portentous words: The presence of a large and powerful American fleet in the Eastern Seas possesses an unexpected interest at the present moment Various reports by unnamed correspondents continued for the next eight years, until August 1861 when Charles Wirgmans first report with illustrations appeared. Described as Our Special Artist and Correspondent, Wirgman was to be the ILNs principal source for reporting on Japan for many years, and famously reported the attack on the British Legation in July 1861 and the British bombardment of Shimonoseki in 1864. After the mid-1870s Wirgmans input declined and the work of other artists and reporters appeared instead. The ILNs own obituary on Wirgman was published on 28 March 1891. By the late 1880s new photogravure printing technology was in place and the appearance of the paper changed significantly. Furthermore, the reporting from Japan diminished noticeably; indeed, there were a number of years in the period featured in this volume when not a single item on Japan appeared. But in the mid-1890s the ILN carried in-depth reporting on the Sino-Japanese War (1894-5), to the virtual exclusion of any other stories, and then reported nothing for the following two years. This volume concludes in 1899, the year of ratification of the ending of the Unequal Treaties between Japan and the Great Powers, which had major implications for Japan and its nascent empire; yet the ILN failed to make any reference to it. Instead, its one report for the final year of the nineteenth century was on the launch of the British-built battleship Asahi, which was to play a major role in the Imperial Japanese Navy during the forthcoming Russo-Japanese War (1904-5) a war which once again was to preoccupy the ILN pages. Thus, Japan and The Illustrated London News provides readers and researchers for the first time with a one-stop access point to the complete record of reported events relating to Japan in the critical half century following its opening to the West.

Traditional Korean Costume

Lee Kyung Ja, Ewha Womans University Hong Na Young, Ewha Womans University and Chang Sook Hwan, Ewha Womans University
October 2005 ISBN 978 19 05 24604 5 Hardback (336 pp.) List price EUR 87.- /US$ 119.The first of its kind to appear in English, this spectacular, detailed volume in full colour celebrating the richness and variety of traditional Korean garments, ornaments and footwear dating back to the Joseon Dynasty will be widely welcomed. It contains over 600 drawings and 200 plates, with detailed commentaries and specific measurements, as well as method of production. The illustrations are by Lee Mi Ryang. Photography by Han Soek Hong. English Translation by Shin Jooyoung.

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Modernities of Chinese Art

John Clark, University of Sydney
January 2007: ISBN 978 90 04 17750 5 Cloth with dustjacket (xii, 346 pp. ) List price: 114.00 / US$ 168.00 This publication presents almost thirty years of pioneering empirical, in-depth research dedicated to modernities of Chinese art, now for the first time conveniently brought together in one volume. John Clark wrote articles on a wide range of topics, often taking up issues not widely handled by academic or curatorial writing,

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