Utamaro: Portraits From The Floating World - Softcover

Kobayashi, Takeshi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 4770027303 ISBN 13: 9784770027306

Publisher: Kodansha International Ltd, 2001

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'. Who was the man behind the pseudonym 'Utamaro'? We know that he was one of the greatest artists of eighteenth-century Japan, and that he was a master portraitist of women in the woodblock-print tradition known as ukiyo-e. But as for the man himself, we know almost nothing. The little there is-gleaned from contemporary books, miscellaneous writings, temple registers-is'

About this title

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.

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 this edition

• Publisher: Kodansha International Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 4770027303
• ISBN 13: 9784770027306
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• Illustrator: Utamaro Kitigawa